PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987578
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["073", "592000"]

Abstract:
Pipeline inspection systems are provided. In one embodiment, a pipeline inspection system can include at least one sensor module having a module body and a plurality of sensor holders mounted to the module body. Each sensor holder can include a holder body with a first body end, a second body end, and a plurality of sensors positioned therebetween, and a plurality of rotational guides that can be coupled to the holder body and configured to be biased towards an interior surface of the pipeline wall so as to define a standoff distance between each sensor and the interior surface of the pipeline wall. Each sensor holder can be at least partially pivotable about a longitudinal axis of the holder body extending between the first body end and the second body end. Methods of inspecting a pipeline are also provided.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of inspecting a pipeline, the method comprising:\n advancing at least one sensor module in a downstream direction through a pipeline having a longitudinal axis extending therethrough, the at least one sensor module having a plurality of sensor holders, each sensor holder including a holder body with a plurality of sensors positioned between a first holder body end and a second holder body end, each holder body including a plurality of rotational guides that are biased toward a wall of the pipeline so as to define a standoff distance between each sensor and an interior surface of the pipeline wall, wherein each sensor holder includes a protection member configured to protect the plurality of sensors from damage as the at least one sensor module translates through the pipeline, the protection member including a tubular-shaped deflector roll and a plurality of protector fins extending outward from a surface of the holder body at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the holder body extending between the first holder body end and the second holder body end, and each holder body pivoting about the longitudinal axis thereof such that at least one of the plurality of rotational guides remains in contact with the interior surface of the pipeline wall as the at least one sensor module translates through the pipeline; and sensing, by the plurality of sensors, a parameter of the pipeline wall as the at least one sensor module translates through the pipeline.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27692
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14997125', '14700288', '14237501', '15788223', '15027325']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6859594706253251
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4726679944228544
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6646303230050781
- Mean Citation Score: 172.723282
- Max Citation Score: 196.16838
- Similarity Product: 154.8145553251648

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

Dataset: test