PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16218833
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["073", "602000"]

Abstract:
A change in a surface of a wall is detected by transmitting a pulse of input ultrasonic vibrations into a proximal surface of the wall and then receiving ultrasonic vibrations from that proximal surface. The received ultrasonic vibrations are compared with a previously detected pulse of output ultrasonic vibrations that have been received from the proximal surface in order to identify, for example, a time of arrival of a current pulse of output ultrasonic vibrations. The time of arrival of this current pulse of output of ultrasonic vibrations may be used to detect a change in the surface of the wall, such as a change in the thickness of the wall. Other embodiments can detect a change in the roughness profile of the wall using changes in the received ultrasonic vibrations other than arrival time.

Claim (Index 11):
The method as claimed in  claim 9 , wherein said preceding pulse of output ultrasonic vibrations is an immediately preceding pulse of output ultrasonic vibrations.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40678
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14781869', '13583253', '12092630', '12884869', '10199499']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6982907516529475
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5575954802511114
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.684221224512764
- Mean Citation Score: 209.32183
- Max Citation Score: 391.2753
- Similarity Product: 351.09951459104417

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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