PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953026
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["324", "453000"]

Abstract:
An exemplary embodiment of an interfacial tension measurement system of the present disclosure is one in which Faraday waves or instability are formed within a vessel of fluids to be tested via electrostatic oscillations. Then, by tracking the amplitude of an applied electrical voltage having an AC harmonic load to the mixture of fluids that result in a Faraday instability, as well as the wavelength of the instability, the interfacial tension measurement system determines the interfacial tension between layers of immiscible liquids present in the vessel.

Claim (Index 1):
An interfacial tension measurement system comprising:\n a vessel adapted to hold multiple immiscible liquids; a first electrode positioned at a top of the vessel; a second electrode positioned at a bottom of the vessel; a voltage source connected between the first electrode and the second electrode, the voltage source configured to supply an AC harmonic load at a fixed frequency between the first and second electrodes thereby supplying an electrostatic oscillation within the immiscible liquids of the vessel from the first electrode to the bottom electrode; a camera positioned above the vessel and configured to capture at least one image of a Faraday instability at an interface between the immiscible liquids, wherein the image comprises a pattern shape indicating a wavelength of the Faraday instability; and a controller computing device configured to increase an amplitude of the AC harmonic load supplied by the voltage source, the controller computing device further configured to determine a measurement of the interfacial tension between the immiscible liquids based on the amplitude of the AC harmonic load and the wavelength of the Faraday instability at an onset of the Faraday instability and the fixed frequency of the AC harmonic load.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.625
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11057900', '10214295', '12934023', '12048707', '13693944']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5467366601180936
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4554688392091396
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5376098780271983
- Mean Citation Score: 142.710803
- Max Citation Score: 156.78877
- Similarity Product: 123.15688570990145

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

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