PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16121159
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["073", "628000"]

Abstract:
A system is provided having a probe assembly configured to inspect components of an assembled flange connection when the probe assembly is disposed within a bore of the components. The probe assembly includes a shaft configured to be aligned with an axis of the assembled flange connection, one or more ultrasound probes coupled to the shaft, and one or more encoders. The one or more ultrasound probes are configured to interface with an interior surface of the bore of the components, to emit ultrasound signals into the components, and to receive ultrasound signals from the components. The one or more encoders are coupled to the shaft and are configured to determine a position of the one or more ultrasound probes relative to a reference point of the assembled flange connection during an inspection of components of the assembled flange connection.

Claim (Index 14):
An inspection method, comprising:\n inserting a probe assembly into a bore of an assembled stack of components from a hydrocarbon extraction system, wherein the probe assembly includes a phased array of ultrasound probes configured by a controller as one or more sets of ultrasound probes, and the assembled stack of components comprises an assembled flange connection between the components; emitting ultrasound signals from a first set of ultrasound probes into the components of the assembled stack; receiving ultrasound signals at the first set of ultrasound probes, wherein the received ultrasound signals are reflected from the components of the assembled stack; and generating a model of the assembled flange connection of the assembled stack based at least in part on the received ultrasound signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 46.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69091
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14846274', '14846238', '13083648', '14700954', '12917721']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6730875526604023
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5318050470941162
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6589593021037737
- Mean Citation Score: 243.810694
- Max Citation Score: 357.8954
- Similarity Product: 333.2594069729805

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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