PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16284292
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["702", "100000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for non-destructive, in situ, positive material identification of a pipe selects a plurality of test areas that are separated axially and circumferentially from one another and then polishes a portion of each test area. Within each polished area, a non-destructive test device is used to collect mechanical property data and another non-destructive test device is used to collect chemical property data. An overall mean for the mechanical property data, and for the chemical property data, is calculated using at least two data collection runs. The means are compared to a known material standard to determine, at a high level of confidence, ultimate yield strength and ultimate tensile strength within +/−10%, a carbon percentage within +/−25%, and a manganese percentage within +/−20% of a known material standard.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for in-situ non-destructive positive material identification of a pipe which is part of a pipeline, the pipe including a plurality of selected test areas on a surface of the pipe, each test area being spaced from other test areas of the plurality, the method comprising:\n polishing, using successively finer polishing media, the surface of the pipe within at least a portion of each test area; collecting within the polished portion of each test area, using a tensile property tester including a ball indenter, a predetermined number of mechanical property data readings, the predetermined number of mechanical property data readings representing a mechanical property data collection run and used to calculate a yield strength and a tensile strength mean of the mechanical properties test location; collecting within the polished portion of each test area, using an optical emissions spectrometer, a predetermined number of chemical property data readings, the predetermined number of chemical property data readings representing a chemical property data collection run and used to calculate a chemical element percentage mean of the chemical properties test location; routing the collected mechanical and chemical property data readings for analysis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92105
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15882295', '14565206', '14248116', '13147992', '14248166']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1723439873861583
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5703359216063812
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2121431808081806
- Mean Citation Score: 249.541692
- Max Citation Score: 441.03427
- Similarity Product: 429.79270697275393

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

Dataset: test