PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744726
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["073", "04050A"]

Abstract:
A method and system for assessing the condition of a pipeline in a pipeline system is disclosed. The method includes generating a pressure wave in the fluid being carried along the pipeline system at a generation location along the pipeline system, detecting a first pressure wave interaction signal at a first measurement location along the pipeline system resulting from an interaction of the pressure wave with localised variations in the pipeline and then detecting synchronously a second pressure wave interaction signal at a second measurement location along the pipeline system resulting from the interaction of the pressure wave with localised variations in the pipeline. The method then involves comparing the first and second pressure wave interaction signals to determine a location of individual features in the first and second pressure wave interaction signals with respect to the generation location, the individual features corresponding to pressure wave reflections from localised variations in the pipeline and characterising the individual features to assess the condition of the pipeline.

Claim (Index 21):
The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein characterising the individual features to assess the condition of the pipeline comprises applying threshold criteria to identify significant pressure wave reflections in the first and second pressure wave interaction signals corresponding to localised defects in the pipeline.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.14815
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13058915', '13701763', '14380131', '15105907', '12928427']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.705655133585204
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5185903847330166
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6869486586999853
- Mean Citation Score: 196.997566
- Max Citation Score: 313.32465
- Similarity Product: 221.54266351986232

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