PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16326965
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["073", "03200A"]

Abstract:
Methods for determining a density of a fluid are provided. The method can include passing the fluid through a conduit, measuring a vibration of the conduit by distributed acoustic sensing via a fiber optic cable coupled to the conduit, and generating a vibrational signal indicative of the measured vibration. At least a portion of the vibration of the conduit can be produced by the fluid passing therethrough. The method can also include measuring a temperature of the conduit and generating a temperature signal indicative of the temperature. The method can further include calculating the density of the fluid passing through the conduit by using the vibrational signal and the temperature signal.

Claim (Index 20):
A system for determining a fluid density, comprising:\n a conduit having an outer surface opposite an inner surface, wherein the inner surface defines a channel extending along a length of the conduit; a fluid contained within the channel and comprising a plurality of particles disposed in a liquid, a gas, or a mixture thereof; a fiber optic cable coupled to the conduit and extending along at least a portion of the length of the conduit; and a distributed sensing unit coupled with the fiber optic cable, configured to measure a vibration of the conduit and to generate a vibrational signal indicative of the vibration, configured to measure a temperature of the conduit and to generate a temperature signal indicative of the temperature, and configured to calculate a density of the fluid passing through the channel by using the vibrational signal and the temperature signal, wherein:\n the vibration of the conduit is produced by the fluid passing through the channel; \n the fluid passing through the channel comprises thermal energy; and \n the outer surface of the conduit is heated to the temperature by absorbing at least a portion of the thermal energy.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45833
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13320311', '11674610', '15316966', '11674589', '10342052']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6971203417171674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4590974105824547
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6733180486036963
- Mean Citation Score: 120.14869
- Max Citation Score: 126.37086
- Similarity Product: 93.14211649957896

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

Dataset: test