PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16232268
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["073", "592000"]

Abstract:
Examples of collecting and analyzing acoustic data for condition assessment within a fluid distribution system are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method for collecting and analyzing acoustic data for condition assessment within a fluid distribution system includes: receiving pipe segment criteria for a pipe segment, the pipe segment including a length of a pipe between a first computing node and a second computing node; determining a predicted parameter based on the received pipe segment criteria for the pipe segment; utilizing the predicted parameter to measure an actual speed of sound for the pipe segment between the first computing node and the second computing node; and comparing the actual speed of sound and a theoretical speed of sound to calculate a predicted pipe degradation for the pipe segment.

Claim (Index 9):
A system for collecting and analyzing acoustic data for condition assessment within a fluid distribution system, comprising:\n a plurality of computing nodes in communication with the fluid distribution system and configured to acquire acoustic data in the fluid distribution system; and a computing host in communication with the plurality of computing nodes, the computing host programmed to perform steps comprising\n receiving pipe segment criteria for a pipe segment, the pipe segment comprising a length of a pipe between a first computing node and a second computing node of the plurality of computing nodes, \n determining a predicted parameter based on the received pipe segment criteria for the pipe segment, \n utilizing the predicted parameter to measure an actual speed of sound for the pipe segment between the first computing node and the second computing node, and \n comparing the actual speed of sound and a theoretical speed of sound to calculate a predicted pipe degradation for the pipe segment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38333
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15493899', '15493914', '15493906', '15796108', '11156573']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6964605237367861
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5992496237597462
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6867394337390822
- Mean Citation Score: 357.3264220000001
- Max Citation Score: 504.1024
- Similarity Product: 488.3636224853514

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