PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16384693
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["073", "861250"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for velocity scanning in, e.g., bodies of water. In one embodiment, a scanned one-dimensional transducer array Doppler sonar arrangement is used to remotely measure both vertical and horizontal profiles of a river or channel along-stream water velocities within a cross-section of the river/channel from a single side-mounted sonar.

Claim (Index 1):
An acoustic system, comprising:\n one or more one-dimensional arrays comprising multiple substantially parallel first-axis rows of transducer elements, the transducer elements configured to be mounted at a location in a fluid flow channel, and to be oriented so as to ensonify across a direction of flow in the channel; and a beamformer circuit electrically connected to the transducer elements in the first-axis rows of the array, the beamformer circuit configured to delay signals associated respectively with each first-axis row.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.24444
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13773447', '15818493', '16105487', '13282257', '11529786']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7368131365867548
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5461074214731627
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7177425650753957
- Mean Citation Score: 305.533248
- Max Citation Score: 422.71448
- Similarity Product: 323.4067556572342

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

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