PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944425
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["166", "338000"]

Abstract:
An improved flexible joint elastomer protection tool is described, which can be actuated and removed by a remote operated vehicle (“ROV”), the tool having pivot arms that can be rotated from a closed position to an open position. Rotation inward to the closed position results in the compression of the elastomeric component in an offshore flexible joint. Rotation outward to the open position results in the de-compression of the elastomeric component in an offshore flexible joint. Rotation of the arms can be accomplished using mechanical, hydraulic or other mechanisms that can be operated by an ROV.

Claim (Index 1):
A flexible joint elastomer protection apparatus comprising:\n one or more legs comprising a pivot arm, a middle portion, a top bar, and a lower bar, said top bar configured to connect to a flexible joint, said lower bar configured to connect to the pivot arm, and the pivot arm configured to rotatably connect to a flexible joint extension member, such that the pivot arm may be in a first position, in which it is rotated away from the middle portion of the leg and exerts substantially no axial force on the flexible joint, or may be in a second position, in which it is rotated towards the middle portion of the leg and exerts, through the top bar, an axial force on the flexible joint.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87719
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14322277', '12644177', '14958140', '14205224', '12931181']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7674053197280752
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4657967219430706
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7372444599495748
- Mean Citation Score: 157.849296
- Max Citation Score: 167.96205
- Similarity Product: 119.92999721849264

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