PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006724
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["166", "250010"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for measuring the size of a round object are provided. Apparatus and methods for checking that a drop ball used in a well fracturing process has a predetermined diameter before being introduced into the wellbore are provided.

Claim (Index 2):
An apparatus as defined in  claim 1 , wherein the ball release support is provided as a component of a drop ball acceptance/rejection unit, the drop ball acceptance/rejection unit having a through pass channel positioned on a first side of the ball release support, the drop ball acceptance/rejection unit being actuable to independently align each of the ball release support and the through pass channel with the measuring chamber so that when the ball release support is aligned with the measuring chamber, the drop ball is retained within the measuring chamber, and when the through pass channel is aligned with the measuring chamber, the drop ball can pass into the wellbore.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 66.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.35484
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15242029', '14329234', '15059033', '12144401', '12778945']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7611934116559462
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4802291192539785
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7330969824157495
- Mean Citation Score: 170.861872
- Max Citation Score: 189.98944
- Similarity Product: 136.7322817760277

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

Dataset: test