PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16024304
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["250", "339130"]

Abstract:
A system remotely detects a gas leakage from a pipeline in an area. The system detects a gas leakage by determining an absorption or emission of gasses in the area. The gas detection system includes at least two light sources. The lasers can include lasers for detecting absorbance of gasses in the area, lasers for stimulating emission of gasses in the area, and lasers for detecting a pathlength. Absorption is determined based on the relative amplitude difference of emitted and reflected light beams. Emission is determined based on an amount emission stimulated by absorbed lasers. Pathlength is determined calculating time of flight of a light beam. The detection system calculates a concentration of the gasses in the area using the determined absorption and pathlength. The detection system can also generate an image representing a gas leakage in the area. The detection system may be attached to an unmanned aerial vehicle.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for remotely detecting gas leakage from a pipeline comprising:\n an image generator configured to capture images; a first light source to emit a first outgoing light beam having a first wavelength in a mid-infrared (IR) range, the first outgoing light beam traversing an area between the system and the pipeline towards a region of the pipeline; a light detector configured to detect a first incoming light beam having the first wavelength, the first incoming light beam being the first outgoing light beam reflected off of an outer surface of the region; a controller configured to:\n compare an intensity of the first incoming light beam to an intensity of the first outgoing beam to calculate an absorption rate, \n responsive to determining the absorption rate above a threshold, determining that the region has a leakage of a first gas, and \n trigger the image generator to capture an image of the region of the pipeline in response to determining that the region has the leakage of the first gas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21918
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15678052', '10959363', '10548194', '11135768', '12617210']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6402899872019612
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.479060941774233
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6241670826591884
- Mean Citation Score: 150.56426679999996
- Max Citation Score: 240.67448
- Similarity Product: 226.4020373228836

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

Dataset: test