PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748114
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["405", "160000"]

Abstract:
A trenching assembly lays a continuous pipeline in a trench dug in a bed with uneven bathymetry, the trenching assembly including a trench digging device having a main body; at least four ground contact units, each unit having a height adjustment device, to position each ground contact unit with respect to the main body independently. A trench cutting tool digs in the bed includes a cutting depth adjustment device, for positioning the cutting tool with respect to the main body. A detection device detects bed bathymetry. A control device simultaneously allows cooperation between the detection device, the height adjustment device of each ground contact unit, and the cutting depth adjustment device. A command device cooperates with the control device to adjustment each ground contact unit and the cutting depth adjustment device, to obtain a trench having a height difference lower than a predefined tolerance and a predetermined burial depth.

Claim (Index 17):
Trenching assembly according to  claim 11 , wherein each of said at least four ground contact units is connected to said main body by at least one leg, suitable for driving relative movement between said ground contact unit and said main body; and/or wherein each of said at least one leg is connected to a respective ground contact unit by a first mechanical joint, suitable for allowing free rotation between said leg and said respective ground contact unit in a movement plane; and/or wherein said first mechanical joint, suitable for allowing the free rotation between said leg and said respective ground contact unit in said movement plane, allows relative movements about an axis orthogonal to said movement plane, or pitch axis, between said leg and said respective ground contact unit; and/or wherein said height adjustment device is suitable for simultaneously and selectively affecting the position of said ground contact unit with respect to said main body, and the movement about the pitch axis of said ground contact unit independently from the other ground contact units.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53125
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13510880', '12425301', '15111303', '14767863', '11010467']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7645043471324368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4947676675730189
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7375306791764951
- Mean Citation Score: 178.74970000000005
- Max Citation Score: 189.78374
- Similarity Product: 122.05678267760038

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

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