PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957094
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["210", "767000"]

Abstract:
A system for separating water from crude oil includes a bulk-storage tank for storing unrefined crude oil, a first pipe for delivering water separated from crude oil in the bulk-storage tank to a containment system, a second pipe for delivering crude oil to a shipping system, a first valve for controlling flow in the first pipe, a second valve for controlling flow in the second pipe, and a control system for controlling operation of the first and second valves. The control system has a control device for controlling the first and second valves, an acoustic sensor array mounted on the first pipe for sensing a sound pressure level during flow of water through the first pipe, means for comparing the sensed sound pressure level with a predetermined sound pressure threshold level characterizing flow of oil-water mixture through the pipe, and a control device for closing the first valve and opening the second valve when the measured sound pressure level reaches the sound pressure threshold level.

Claim (Index 3):
An apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the application program is communicated to the controller via Internet or a private wide-area network from a remote computer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77778
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14143740', '11297282', '12708740', '13066354', '12383431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7429890586329291
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5280454437402218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7214946971436583
- Mean Citation Score: 146.43785
- Max Citation Score: 149.58463
- Similarity Product: 63.176696885571786

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

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