PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758197
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["166", "339000"]

Abstract:
A method for replacing a first control pod of a BOP stack includes (a) lowering a control pod exchange device subsea. In addition, the method includes (b) coupling the control pod exchange device to the BOP stack. Further, the method includes (c) transferring the first control pod from the BOP stack to the control pod exchange device after (b). Still further, the method includes (d) lifting the control pod exchange device to the surface after (c).

Claim (Index 23):
A method for replacing a first control pod of a BOP stack, the method comprising:\n (a) loading a second control pod onto a control pod exchange device; (b) lowering the control pod exchange device subsea after (a) with a lifting device mounted to a surface vessel, wherein the control pod exchange device is suspended from the lifting device with a first rope or a pipe string; (c) coupling a BOP stack connector to the BOP stack after (b), wherein a second rope has a first end coupled to the control pod exchange device and a second end coupled to the BOP stack connector; and (d) lowering the first rope or the pipe string to lower the control pod exchange device relative to the first rope or the pipe string to the BOP stack connector after (c).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 54.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63889
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15758287', '12956205', '14469516', '13293346', '14313633']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8021223184162872
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5704956509289563
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7789596516675541
- Mean Citation Score: 327.4345600000001
- Max Citation Score: 521.8723
- Similarity Product: 404.6341411564768

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

Dataset: test