PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16284292
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["702", "100000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for non-destructive, in situ, positive material identification of a pipe selects a plurality of test areas that are separated axially and circumferentially from one another and then polishes a portion of each test area. Within each polished area, a non-destructive test device is used to collect mechanical property data and another non-destructive test device is used to collect chemical property data. An overall mean for the mechanical property data, and for the chemical property data, is calculated using at least two data collection runs. The means are compared to a known material standard to determine, at a high level of confidence, ultimate yield strength and ultimate tensile strength within +/−10%, a carbon percentage within +/−25%, and a manganese percentage within +/−20% of a known material standard.

Claim (Index 23):
A system for non-destructive, in situ, positive material identification of a pipe which is part of a pipeline, the system comprising:\n a grinder including successively finer polishing media for preparing a plurality of polished test areas on the surface of the pipe, each polished test area being separated from other polished test areas of the plurality; a tensile property tester including a ball indenter for collecting mechanical property data of the pipe the polished test areas on the surface of the pipe, the collected mechanical property data being used to calculate an overall yield strength and a tensile strength mean; and an optical emission spectrometer for collecting chemical property data of the pipe within the polished test areas on the surface of the pipe, the collected chemical property data being used to calculate an overall chemical element percent mean; and a known API material standard, wherein the overall yield strength and tensile strength mean and the overall chemical element percent mean is compared to the known API material standard to identify a material of the pipe.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92105
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15882295', '14565206', '14248116', '13147992', '14248166']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1732907859002191
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5671351262441399
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2126752199346111
- Mean Citation Score: 249.541692
- Max Citation Score: 441.03427
- Similarity Product: 402.9986361839527

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test