PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744726
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["073", "04050A"]

Abstract:
A method and system for assessing the condition of a pipeline in a pipeline system is disclosed. The method includes generating a pressure wave in the fluid being carried along the pipeline system at a generation location along the pipeline system, detecting a first pressure wave interaction signal at a first measurement location along the pipeline system resulting from an interaction of the pressure wave with localised variations in the pipeline and then detecting synchronously a second pressure wave interaction signal at a second measurement location along the pipeline system resulting from the interaction of the pressure wave with localised variations in the pipeline. The method then involves comparing the first and second pressure wave interaction signals to determine a location of individual features in the first and second pressure wave interaction signals with respect to the generation location, the individual features corresponding to pressure wave reflections from localised variations in the pipeline and characterising the individual features to assess the condition of the pipeline.

Claim (Index 13):
The method as claimed in  claim 8 , wherein determining whether the localised variation is a hydraulic feature and/or component of the pipeline system comprises correlating the localised variation with prior information regarding the pipeline system to determine whether the hydraulic feature and/or component is registered or unregistered.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.14815
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13058915', '13701763', '14380131', '15105907', '12928427']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7057589040327124
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5174423778652386
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.686927251415965
- Mean Citation Score: 196.997566
- Max Citation Score: 313.32465
- Similarity Product: 229.4558346159518

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

Dataset: test