PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15996102
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["073", "632000"]

Abstract:
The present apparatus is configured to carry an instrument or probe and optionally deploy it against a surface, such as a metal pipeline or storage tank. The apparatus can include a sensor probe for inspecting the integrity of the surface and a first linkage that is operatively coupled to the sensor probe and configured to move the sensor probe according to a first path (in a first direction/first degree of freedom). An actuator can be operatively connected to the first linkage for moving the first linkage so as to move the sensor probe along the first path. A second linkage is operatively connected to the sensor probe and configured to passively move the sensor probe according to a second degree of freedom to cause the sensor probe to become normal to the surface when at least a portion of the apparatus contacts the surface.

Claim (Index 3):
The system of  claim 1 , further comprising a motor that is operatively coupled to the first linkage for actively driving the first linkage so as to move the instrument according to the first path, wherein the first path comprises a lifting and lowering of the instrument relative to the surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28788
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14624726', '15647372', '15647332', '11104839', '14593699']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6321609874346882
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.529817719966225
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6219266606878419
- Mean Citation Score: 193.88033
- Max Citation Score: 339.44083
- Similarity Product: 251.53231030727505

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

Dataset: test