PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990870
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["441", "133000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments disclosed herein describe cylindrical structures with indents configured to reduce vortex induced vibrations (VIV). For example, the cylindrical structures may be configured to reduce VIV for drilling risers subject to ocean currents. In embodiments, the indents may be positioned on an outer surface of the cylindrical structures, wherein the indents may be parallel pairs. The pairs may be mirrored between a first end and a second end of the cylindrical structure, and be positioned in a helical pattern, which may be continuous or staggered.

Claim (Index 9):
The buoyancy module of  claim 1 , wherein each of the pairs of indents are symmetrical.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68421
- Patent Class: 441.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15347998', '09808299', '15134774', '13708367', '12793183']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.650341959575079
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5309790041298225
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6384056640305533
- Mean Citation Score: 226.86874
- Max Citation Score: 330.42194
- Similarity Product: 198.361532020216

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

Dataset: test