PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16415115
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["702", "047000"]

Abstract:
A monitoring device includes a cavity assembly with a plurality of cavities. Openings of the plurality of cavities are distributed about a flow-facing surface of the cavity assembly. A gas pressure sensor is disposed within each of the cavities, and is configured to measure an absolute pressure of a gas flow which flows past the monitoring device. Gas pressure measurements from the pressure sensors may be used to determine a flow speed and a flow direction of the gas flow. More specifically, a mapping may be used to map the logarithm of the difference between the maximum and minimum pressures to a flow speed. Further, a lookup table may be used to map a pattern of pressure measurements to a flow direction.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for determining a speed and direction of a flow of a gas using a monitoring device, the monitoring device comprising (i) a cavity assembly with a plurality of cavities, (ii) a plurality of pressure sensors, each of the pressure sensors being disposed within one of the cavities, and (iii) a processor communicatively coupled to each of the pressure sensors, the method comprising:\n measuring, by each of the pressure sensors, an absolute pressure of a portion of the gas contained within a respective cavity corresponding to the pressure sensor; receiving, by the processor, the absolute pressure measurement from each of the pressure sensors; determining, by the processor, the speed of the gas flow based on a difference between a maximum one of and a minimum one of the absolute gas pressure measurements, wherein the maximum one of the absolute gas pressure measurements is received from a first one of the pressure sensors disposed in a first one of the cavities and the minimum one of the absolute gas pressure measurements is received from a second one of the pressure sensors disposed in a second one of the cavities; and determining, by the processor, the direction of the gas flow based on an ordering of the pressure sensors, wherein the pressure sensors are ordered by a magnitude of their corresponding absolute gas pressure measurements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14754
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15397426', '15040355', '15615141', '14956770', '14345275']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1868365275282755
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5261798233949133
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2207708571149393
- Mean Citation Score: 189.406084
- Max Citation Score: 318.87802
- Similarity Product: 305.36515579254626

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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