PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969959
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["432", "008000"]

Abstract:
Devices and corresponding methods can be provided to monitor or measure temperature of a target or to control a process. Targets can have low, unknown, or variable emissivity. Devices and corresponding methods can be used to measure temperatures of thin film, partially transparent, or opaque targets, as well as targets not filling a sensor's field of view. Temperature measurements can be made independent of emissivity of a target surface by, for example, inserting a target between a thermopile sensor and a background surface maintained at substantially the same temperature as the thermopile sensor. In embodiment devices and methods, a sensor temperature can be controlled to match a target temperature by minimizing or zeroing a net heat flux at the sensor, as derived from a sensor output signal. Alternatively, a target temperature can be controlled to minimize the heat flux.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of monitoring a temperature of a target, the method comprising:\n viewing a target with a radiation sensor, the target being situated between the radiation sensor and a closed background surface filling a field of view of the radiation sensor, the background surface and the radiation sensor being maintained at substantially the same temperature; and adjusting a relative temperature between the radiation sensor and the target to minimize a net heat flux at the radiation sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10811
- Patent Class: 432.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14202998', '14190739', '13339566', '15697290', '10684818']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6645105137705051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5101506465434749
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.649074527047802
- Mean Citation Score: 194.409562
- Max Citation Score: 293.483
- Similarity Product: 257.00761037135123

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