PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876774
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["705", "305000"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a method of efficiently determining the effectiveness of managing a chemical or industrial facility. The method involves identifying various industrial site assets and recording various specs of those assets over time. The various assets are grouped according to some hierarchy such as location, problem to be solved, or just asset type. The specs are compared to acceptable ranges and are scored positively or negatively. The system allows a user to determine trends by asset type, spec type, or by position within the hierarchy. This system allows both small scale and large-scale perspective, and can be used for both reactive and preemptive decision making.

Claim (Index 15):
A computer-implemented method for remediating equipment damage within a chemical production process, the method comprising:\n a) receiving, by a computer, specification data collected from a plurality of individual process control assets corresponding to the chemical production process; wherein each respective process control asset of the plurality of individual process control assets is a respective piece of equipment subject to a respective set of chemical conditions; wherein the plurality of individual process control assets include at least one of: a boiler, a heat exchanger, a cooling tower, a conduit pipe, a reaction vessel, a mill, a storage tank, a mixing tank, a pump, and a valve; wherein the specification data include one or more of: temperature, pressure, pH, voltage, density, viscosity, and concentration of one or more materials of interest; and wherein the specification data includes information regarding at least one of: scale buildup, corrosion level, acidity level, base level, and microbial health; b) storing, for each process control asset of the plurality of individual process control assets, by the computer, the received specification data into a data structure of a template; wherein templates for the plurality of individual process control assets are organized into a hierarchy, the hierarchy including templates for single process control assets at a lowest level of the hierarchy and templates for categories of process control assets at a higher level of the hierarchy; wherein different templates at the lowest level of the hierarchy are defined for different types of equipment; and wherein the hierarchy is selected from a group comprising: an asset category, a geographic location, a unit of ownership, a time of operation, and a cost of operation; c) accumulating, by the computer, one or more specification values from the plurality of individual process control assets, the plurality of individual process control assets being within a category of process control assets for and associated with a template at the higher level of the hierarchy; d) calculating a composite specification value based on the one or more specification values; e) determining, by the computer, whether the composite specification value is within an acceptable range of values; and f) upon the composite specification value not being within the acceptable range of values, which indicates a damage to the process control asset, automatically initiating, by the computer, a remediating countermeasure including adding a chemical to the process control asset, the chemical operable to perform on the process control asset at least one of: scale control, corrosion control, acid neutralization, base neutralization, microbial control, and microbial preservation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64789
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10100749', '12016668', '10109601', '11436102', '11546884']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.0979581659644746
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4944972550789382
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.137612074875921
- Mean Citation Score: 142.77106400000002
- Max Citation Score: 151.28413
- Similarity Product: 90.90557784906387

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

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