{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_light_screen_20260805","cell_id":"additive_measure_space_design__accounting_auditing","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["bulk liquid inventory accounting cutoff tank pipeline line fill shared header audit","mechanical isolation manifold trap pipe contents drain weigh vessel liquid measurement"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["tank inventory line pack pipeline contents accounting measurement cutoff","pipeline fullness verification shore tank vessel line pack measurement line displacement method","API MPMS 17.6 line fullness methods shore tank"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["API MPMS Chapter 17.6 Guidelines for Determining the Fullness of Pipelines Between Vessels and Shore Tanks official","product double block bleed manifold isolate trapped liquid drain measuring vessel","double block and bleed valve pipeline isolation central bleed"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["patent isolate pipeline segment measure liquid volume trapped line drain weighing tank","two tanks connecting pipe isolate contents measurement liquid patent","manifold simultaneously closes valves traps liquid drain vessel weigh"],"source_ids":["SRC4"],"no_result_note":"The bounded searches found established pipeline-fullness procedures, double-block-and-bleed isolation, and isolated-section measurement, but no retained source disclosed the complete combination of one-actuation two-tank isolation, separate capture and weighing of shared-header liquid, local tank measurements, and partition-invariance testing for audit cutoff."}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"AU 326 Evidential Matter","publisher":"Public Company Accounting Oversight Board","url":"https://pcaobus.org/oversight/standards/archived-standards/details/AU326","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","claims_supported":["Inventory audit objectives include physical existence and completeness.","Illustrative procedures include observing physical counts, testing shipping and receiving cutoff, and reconciling physical counts to records.","Direct physical examination and observation can provide more persuasive evidence than indirect information."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"API MPMS Chapter 17.6—Guidelines for Determining the Fullness of Pipelines Between Vessels and Shore Tanks","publisher":"American Petroleum Institute","url":"https://www.api.org/~/media/files/publications/whats%20new/17_6%20e2%20pa.pdf","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","claims_supported":["Pipeline fill condition is a recognized measurement issue before and after liquid-cargo transfers.","The standard covers procedures for determining or confirming pipeline fill condition for crude oil and petroleum products.","Method selection and documentation of effectiveness are installation-specific responsibilities."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"Fullness of Pipelines Between Marine Vessels and Shore Facilities, Bulletin 14-02 Rev. 1","publisher":"TIC Council","url":"https://www.tic-council.org/application/files/2217/0264/1835/B14-02_2023_Fullness_of_Pipelines_Between_Marine_Vessels_and_Shore_Facilities.pdf","source_type":"TRADE_PROFESSIONAL","claims_supported":["Recognized line-fullness practices include high-point bleed, internal circulation, line displacement, line press or line pack, and pigging.","Line displacement compares quantities delivered and received and requires an agreed measurement tolerance.","Existing line-fullness methods have limitations, and terminals may lack evidence documenting method effectiveness."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"Double Block and Bleed Floating Ball","publisher":"BuTech / Haskel","url":"https://www.haskel.com/en/butech/double-block-and-bleed-floating-ball/","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["Commercial manifolds already combine two isolating ball valves with a central needle bleed valve.","The product provides physical isolation and a central vent or bleed path in one compact unit.","The cited product is intended for process instrumentation, isolation, pressure, and flow control rather than inventory-cutoff recomposition."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"The problem class is visible: audit guidance treats physical existence, completeness, reconciliation, and cutoff as inventory-evidence issues, while petroleum-measurement sources specifically recognize uncertain pipeline fullness around transfers and require installation-specific verification. The retained sources do not directly document the proposal's narrower scenario of one shared header being simultaneously attributed to two tanks, so that exact double-attribution mechanism remains only indirectly supported.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"API MPMS Chapter 17.6 pipeline-fullness verification practices","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"],"overlap":"Addresses liquid remaining in transfer piping and uses methods such as line displacement, line press, circulation, bleeding, or pigging to establish the line's condition around a transfer.","remaining_difference":"These practices determine or confirm fullness and reconcile delivered versus received quantities; the retained descriptions do not separately trap and directly weigh the header contents while simultaneously isolating and measuring both adjacent tanks."},{"name":"Commercial double-block-and-bleed manifold","source_ids":["SRC4"],"overlap":"Mechanically creates isolation barriers around an intermediate cavity and supplies a central bleed path, closely matching the physical isolation submechanism.","remaining_difference":"The product is an instrumentation-isolation component, not a ganged two-tank cutoff apparatus with a weighed receiver, three additive inventory measurements, or repeated partition-invariance tests."},{"name":"Conventional physical-count, cutoff, and reconciliation audit procedures","source_ids":["SRC1"],"overlap":"Targets inventory existence, completeness, cutoff, and reconciliation using physical observation and corroborating evidence.","remaining_difference":"The guidance does not prescribe a hydraulic mechanism that turns ambiguous connected liquid into directly measured, mutually exclusive compartments."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","contrastive_claim_remaining":"For a two-reservoir liquid loop with a shared header, a single mechanical actuation can freeze three mutually exclusive physical compartments, make the header contents directly measurable by captured mass, and yield a three-part sum invariant across liquid distributions and isolation sequences within predeclared uncertainty. The retained prior art addresses line fullness, audit reconciliation, or isolation separately, but does not disclose that complete cutoff-measurement combination.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim is falsified if an existing system is found that performs the same simultaneous two-boundary isolation, separately captures and directly measures header mass, and recomposes it with both tank measurements for cutoff evidence, or if blinded bench tests show the recomposed mass varies by distribution or isolation sequence beyond propagated uncertainty or fails to match an independent conserved-charge mass.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The bounded search covered the proposal directly, older line-fill and line-pack terminology, audit and petroleum-measurement standards and practices, commercial isolation products, patents, and component combinations. Exactly four opened sources from four publishers were retained, including official guidance, an official standard source, and a first-party product source.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The evidence partly supports the problem: inventory cutoff and physical reconciliation are recognized audit concerns, and transfer-pipeline fullness is an established measurement problem even though the exact shared-header double-attribution formulation was not directly documented.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The remaining claim is narrower than the adjacent art and is testable as a physical proposition: simultaneous isolation and direct header weighing must produce an additive total independent of liquid distribution and isolation order within declared uncertainty.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A contained low-pressure water loop can compare tank-only readings, the three isolated compartment readings, and an independent conserved-charge mass over several blinded distributions and repeated isolation sequences. Failure criteria can be fixed prospectively using propagated instrument uncertainty.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"No obvious stop applies to a facility-approved, non-production, low-pressure water-loop test using rated components, containment, guarded valves, load limits, and pressure relief. The test must not create an unrelieved sealed liquid volume; production, hazardous-liquid, financial-posting, and audit-reliance uses remain outside authorization.","source_ids":["SRC4"]}},"screen_survival":true,"world_novelty_boundary":"This result establishes only survival of a bounded contrastive prior-art screen. It does not establish world novelty, patentability, market size, expert acceptance, regulatory or audit sufficiency, or realized value."}