PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887743
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["073", "597000"]

Abstract:
A sound velocity sensor for underwater use has an acoustic transmitter and receiver, a path length portion defining an acoustic path and positioned such that a generated acoustic signal propagates along the acoustic path from the acoustic transmitter to the receiver, a temperature sensor in direct contact with the path length portion, and a controller communicatively coupled to these components. The controller is configured to generate the acoustic signal using the acoustic transmitter, determine a transit time of the acoustic signal from the acoustic transmitter to the acoustic receiver, determine a temperature of the path length portion using the temperature sensor, and determine the velocity of the acoustic signal from the transit time and a length of the acoustic path. Determining the velocity includes compensating for a temperature-related change in the length of the acoustic path using the temperature of the path length portion.

Claim (Index 3):
The sound velocity sensor of  claim 2  wherein the temperature sensor is entirely embedded within the path length portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83333
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14986968', '13929186', '11085832', '14207803', '14207741']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7238077274327076
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4986659821290034
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7012935529023372
- Mean Citation Score: 215.142666
- Max Citation Score: 218.45694
- Similarity Product: 141.33929962052466

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