PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16402610
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["073", "114550"]

Abstract:
There is described herein methods and systems relating to the use of the interaction of different materials to perform early detection of component failure. In particular, when the debris in a fluid sample comes from more than one source, a “level of interaction” is determined in order to monitor the degradation of the parts or components associated with the debris, as a function of the composition of the particles found in the fluid sample.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for evaluating a condition of at least one component from an environment having at least a first material and a second material different in chemical composition from the first material, the method comprising:\n obtaining chemical composition data of a plurality of particles filtered from a fluid sample of the environment; identifying particles that fall within an interaction zone, the interaction zone corresponding to a concentration range for at least a first element found in the first material and at least a second element found in at least the second material, the concentration range defined by upper and lower limits that vary as a function of a given element, the upper limit corresponding to a minimum concentration for the given element in the first material and the lower limit corresponding to a maximum concentration for the given element in the second material; determining a level of interaction based on a quantity of particles within the interaction zone by determining a percentage of the first material and a percentage of the second material that forms a given particle by minimizing an equation, for every particle, for a plurality of concentrations of the first material, and counting how many particles in the sample are composed of a predetermined range of concentrations of the first material and the second material; and assigning a condition rating to the at least one component as a function of the level of interaction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5283
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14743015', '12440949', '14215834', '14852192', '13578593']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6283351567634403
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4972873856867204
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6152303796557683
- Mean Citation Score: 158.46766100000005
- Max Citation Score: 286.49927
- Similarity Product: 284.86074478486483

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

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