PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887743
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["073", "597000"]

Abstract:
A sound velocity sensor for underwater use has an acoustic transmitter and receiver, a path length portion defining an acoustic path and positioned such that a generated acoustic signal propagates along the acoustic path from the acoustic transmitter to the receiver, a temperature sensor in direct contact with the path length portion, and a controller communicatively coupled to these components. The controller is configured to generate the acoustic signal using the acoustic transmitter, determine a transit time of the acoustic signal from the acoustic transmitter to the acoustic receiver, determine a temperature of the path length portion using the temperature sensor, and determine the velocity of the acoustic signal from the transit time and a length of the acoustic path. Determining the velocity includes compensating for a temperature-related change in the length of the acoustic path using the temperature of the path length portion.

Claim (Index 21):
The method of  claim 20  further comprising:\n (a) determining a maximum amplitude of a reflection resulting from reflecting the acoustic signal; \n (b) comparing the maximum amplitude to a reflection threshold; and \n (c) when the maximum amplitude is less than the reflection threshold, generating another acoustic signal of larger amplitude than the acoustic signal that is the source of the reflection.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83333
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14986968', '13929186', '11085832', '14207803', '14207741']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7032316040245596
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4776034981890689
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6806687934410106
- Mean Citation Score: 215.142666
- Max Citation Score: 218.45694
- Similarity Product: 175.75094847697017

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

Dataset: test