PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032499
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["366", "007000"]

Abstract:
The temperature of concrete can be monitored by a temperature probe. Typically, large volumes of concrete such as are typically carried in mixer trucks or mixed in industrial concrete production drums have a relatively stable, or slowly varying temperature, given the high thermal capacity of concrete. A sudden change in temperature can thus be attributed to an external event. A sudden addition of even a relatively small amount of water for instance, which has an even higher thermal capacity, can produce a notable sudden change in temperature. Examples where the detection of the addition of water can be particularly useful in the production and/or transport of concrete are provided herein. Moreover, if the temperature of the added water is known, and the quantity of concrete is also known, the sudden difference in temperature can be correlated to a volume of added water.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of using temperature measurements of concrete in a mixer drum, said method comprising:\n obtaining a target temperature of the concrete; determining a temperature of water in a water system; obtaining a quantity and a thermal capacity of said concrete in the mixer drum; using a processing unit, calculating an amount of said water to be added to the mixer drum to reach said target temperature based on said quantity and thermal capacity of the concrete and said measured temperature of said water; and adding the calculated amount of water from the water system to the mixer drum.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97468
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14441412', '13076687', '15374530', '14642536', '15161927']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7898958609710661
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.45370665579773
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7562769404537325
- Mean Citation Score: 171.51490800000005
- Max Citation Score: 224.13475
- Similarity Product: 208.855909120366

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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