PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16046298
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["250", "254000"]

Abstract:
A gamma ray scintillation spectrometer is disclosed in which an inorganic scintillation crystal has a channel extending therethrough for receiving a sample into, and disposing a sample out of, the scintillation crystal. The spectrometer further includes a photomultiplier tube optically coupled to the scintillation crystal to detect photons generated by the scintillation crystal. A system and a method for using the gamma ray scintillation spectrometer are also provided.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for analyzing drill cuttings in the process of oil and gas well drilling operations, comprising:\n preparing a drill cuttings sample from drill cuttings recovered from an oil and gas well during drilling operations; providing a gamma ray scintillation spectrometer comprised of an inorganic scintillation crystal and a photomultiplier tube optically coupled to the scintillation crystal in a configuration to detect photons emitted by the scintillation crystal in response to the sample, wherein a channel extends through the scintillation crystal along a first axis, wherein the scintillation crystal has a length along a second axis oriented transverse to the first axis and the channel has a length along the second axis that is at least \u2156 the length of the scintillation crystal along the second axis, the channel being configured to receive the sample into the scintillation crystal through an inlet end of the channel and to dispose the sample out of the scintillation crystal through an outlet end of the channel, where the inlet end of the channel and the outlet end of the channel are not the same end of the channel; introducing the sample into the channel; and measuring a gamma ray spectrum of the sample with the gamma ray scintillation spectrometer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58696
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10398973', '11219028', '15026874', '15547004', '15110401']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7208300612559505
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5018655795089076
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6989336130812462
- Mean Citation Score: 251.086308
- Max Citation Score: 268.4186
- Similarity Product: 196.0496565841317

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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