PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16144956
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["703", "010000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods process a measured ultrasonic response waveform to determine a well casing thickness and an acoustic impedance of a sealing medium surrounding the well casing. An array of simulated response waveforms corresponding to a set of candidate acoustic impedances for the sealing medium surrounding the well casing and a set of candidate well casing thicknesses is generated. A simulated response waveform from the array of simulated response waveforms is identified that best matches the measured response waveform so as to determine the sealing medium acoustic impedance.

Claim (Index 4):
The computer-implemented method of  claim 3 , wherein generating each of the plurality of simulated response waveforms comprises:\n calculating amplitudes for simulated echo waves returning to the ultrasonic transducer from the well casing and at least one interface between the sealing medium in the annulus and the ground formation surrounding the annulus; generating corrected amplitudes and pulse shapes for the simulated echo waves by correcting the amplitudes and pulse shapes for the simulated echo waves to account for multi-dimensional propagation effects including diffraction, refraction, and resulting beam size at a transducer plane of the ultrasonic transducer; generating a first simulated waveform based on the corrected amplitudes and pulse shapes; and convolving the first simulated waveform with the transducer impulse response to generate the respective simulated response waveform.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11628
- Patent Class: 703.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14962368', '11574905', '14887746', '15539299', '14612101']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2749623757825106
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6610064444168362
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3135667826459432
- Mean Citation Score: 319.41245
- Max Citation Score: 640.17267
- Similarity Product: 623.2636979267352

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

Dataset: test