Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claim 12 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because given the broadest reasonable interpretation “a computer-readable storage medium” includes a transitory carrier wave, which is non-statutory.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-11 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
The prior art does not disclose or suggest the claimed "measurement branch is connected in parallel on the measurement trunk through a third port of the first three-way valve (2), a third port of the second three- way valve (4) and a third port of the third three-way valve (5); the magnetic resonance multiphase flowmeter comprises a plurality of magnet structures, which are distributed at intervals in an axial direction of the magnetic resonance multiphase flowmeter and are configured to magnetize a fluid; and the magnetic resonance multiphase flowmeter further comprises two measurement antennas, which are distributed at intervals in the axial direction of the magnetic resonance multiphase flowmeter and are configured to perform phase state detection on the magnetized fluid." in combination with the remaining claim elements as set forth in claims 1-11.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Hiltunen et al. (US 11,906,606 B2) teaches an NMR measurement unit fixable within a process channel.
Bousche et al. (US 9,429,457 B2) teaches a nuclear magnetic flowmeter.
King et al. (US 6,046,587) teaches measurement of flow fractions, flow velocities, and flow rates of a multiphase fluid using NMR sensing.
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/GREGORY H CURRAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2852