PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006724
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["166", "250010"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for measuring the size of a round object are provided. Apparatus and methods for checking that a drop ball used in a well fracturing process has a predetermined diameter before being introduced into the wellbore are provided.

Claim (Index 27):
A method of injecting a drop ball into a wellbore, the method comprising the steps of:\n ascertaining a desired diameter of the drop ball to be injected into the wellbore; providing the drop ball to a measuring chamber of an injection apparatus through an inlet, the measuring chamber interposing the inlet and an outlet that can be placed in fluid communication with the inlet, the measuring chamber having a ball release support positioned to initially support the drop ball within the measuring chamber; initially holding the drop ball in the measuring chamber using the ball release support; measuring a diameter of the drop ball by actuating a measuring piston to contact an edge of the drop ball and force the drop ball against a downstream surface of the measuring chamber; evaluating whether the drop ball has the desired diameter and; if the drop ball has the desired diameter, releasing the drop ball from the measuring chamber into the wellbore by actuating the ball release support to allow the drop ball to move from the measuring chamber to the wellbore via the outlet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 66.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.35484
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15242029', '14329234', '15059033', '12144401', '12778945']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7403650208328542
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4705871790498875
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7133872366545575
- Mean Citation Score: 170.861872
- Max Citation Score: 189.98944
- Similarity Product: 146.63629233373644

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

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