PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936954
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "081000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for measuring a position of a point on a submerged surface. The apparatus includes: a platform; a liquid-tight pressure vessel fixedly coupled to the platform, wherein the liquid-tight pressure vessel is formed in part by an optically transparent enclosure; a pan-tilt mechanism coupled to the platform and disposed inside the liquid-tight pressure vessel; a camera mounted to the pan-tilt mechanism; a laser range meter affixed to the camera; and a refractive index sensor coupled to and disposed outside the liquid-tight pressure vessel. In accordance with one proposed implementation, the optically transparent enclosure is spherical, the pan-tilt mechanism has a pan axis and a tilt axis that intersect at a center of the optically transparent enclosure, and the laser range meter is located to emit a laser beam that is perpendicular to the optically transparent enclosure.

Claim (Index 22):
The method as recited in  claim 18 , wherein step (c) comprises using the laser range meter to emit a laser beam and then detect a portion of the laser beam returned from the point on the submerged surface, and step (e) comprises taking into account the speed of light in the liquid through which the light emitted and detected by the laser range meter propagates.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15714
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15796880', '13921246', '13892336', '14672952', '15183128']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6442441712174823
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4917493043841235
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6289946845341465
- Mean Citation Score: 194.104476
- Max Citation Score: 206.87772
- Similarity Product: 142.7215441117716

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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