PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972577
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["126", "263010"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides for a novel pig design and method of retrieval based on thermal ablation. The pig comprises an external layer and an inner core, where the inner core further comprises at least one incendiary charge comprising at least one exothermic material. When ignited via an ignition source, the incendiary charge releases the exothermic material into one or more thermal dispersion channels. The exothermic material melts the interior of these thermal dispersion channels thereby distributing the exothermic material throughout the pig device causing its destruction via thermal ablation. The destroyed pig can then be easily retrieved from its location in a pipe, as detected via radio signals, without the need for costly excavation of large sections of the pipe.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 7  wherein the exothermic material further comprises barium nitrate in amounts of about 22.5% to about 27.5% by mass; barium sulfate in amounts of about 25.3% to about 33.5% by mass; iron (III) oxide in amounts of about 14.8% to about 19.4% by mass; aluminum in amounts of about 12.8% to about 15.8% by mass; and magnesium in amounts of about 10.4% to about 13.5%.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68831
- Patent Class: 126.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15788673', '15187866', '14828918', '13860199', '12748795']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8485305698518251
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6235464235009998
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8260321552167426
- Mean Citation Score: 313.54232399999995
- Max Citation Score: 568.8335
- Similarity Product: 549.0453199504017

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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