{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_light_screen_20260805","cell_id":"emergent_pattern_detection__accounting_auditing","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["bulk material sampler sample weight determine total flow proportional sample mass","polymer pellet loss spills handling Operation Clean Sweep official"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3"],"no_result_note":"No retained source disclosed the complete proposed combination of per-spout proportional witnesses, independent silo depletion, and inventory-audit interpretation."},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["continuous sample proportional bulk solids sampler","fixed ratio division mass flow measurement bulk solids","fixed proportion sampler bulk material stream"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["bulk solids proportional sampler automatic sample cutter fixed percentage stream pellets","site:pcaobus.org inventory observation quantities auditing standard inventory official"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["mechanical splitter retained fraction weigh total throughput inventory audit","gravimetric mass balance silo inventory shrinkage reconciliation bulk solids","sample mass total flow bulk material sampler"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC4"],"no_result_note":"The search found established proportional mass estimation and audit-evidence practices separately, but not their documented use together as a distributed pellet-shrinkage witness."}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"Chapter 29: Mass or Volume Estimation by Proportional Sampling","publisher":"Elsevier / ScienceDirect","url":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0922348708701084","source_type":"SECONDARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["A 1992 technical chapter describes estimating the mass of a flowing batch by collecting a sample whose mass is proportional to batch mass at a known ratio.","It expressly describes weighing the proportional sample and dividing its mass by the sampling ratio to estimate total batch mass.","This establishes close antecedence for the proposal's aliquot accumulation and ratio-adjusted throughput estimate, although not the complete inventory-differential application."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"Reliable, low-maintenance dry bulk rotary samplers","publisher":"FLSmidth A/S","url":"https://fls.com/en/equipment/sampling-and-online-analysis/dry-rotary-samplers","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["Commercial dry-bulk samplers capture proportional samples from falling material streams and are stated to handle granules, powders, and pellets.","The product family includes enclosed cutters for vertical pipes and a rotary tube sampler with flexible percentage-split outputs.","The equipment is marketed for representative sampling and analysis, not as an independent inventory-shrinkage audit witness."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"Impact Assessment Report: Combatting microplastic pollution in the European Union—preventing plastic pellet losses","publisher":"European Commission / EUR-Lex","url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52023SC0332","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","claims_supported":["The Commission reports that current pellet-handling practices cause losses at stages throughout the supply chain.","It identifies chronic losses during bulk and packed loading and unloading and identifies process and mixing points as recurring loss locations.","It estimates EU pellet losses in 2019 at 52,140 to 184,290 tonnes, supporting the visibility of a real physical-loss problem while not establishing the proposal's sub-resolution detection premise."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"AS 1105: Audit Evidence","publisher":"Public Company Accounting Oversight Board","url":"https://pcaobus.org/oversight/standards/auditing-standards/details/AS1105","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","claims_supported":["Auditors must obtain sufficient appropriate evidence, with relevance depending on whether a procedure directly tests the assertion and provides necessary disaggregation.","Physical inspection and independent reperformance are recognized audit procedures, and inconsistent evidence from different sources requires further procedures to resolve the matter.","Observation of inventory counting is limited to the point in time observed, supporting the relevance of additional evidence spanning a handling window."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"The physical problem is visible: an official EU assessment documents chronic pellet losses across handling stages and recurring loss locations. The accounting relevance is also visible because PCAOB standards require reliable evidence concerning financial-statement assertions and recognize limitations of point-in-time inventory observation. The stronger premise—that many individually sub-resolution losses routinely aggregate into an otherwise hidden valuation error—was not directly demonstrated by the retained sources.","source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"Mass or Volume Estimation by Proportional Sampling","source_ids":["SRC1"],"overlap":"It contains the proposal's central measurement primitive: collect a known proportional sample from a flowing batch, weigh it accurately, and infer total mass by the inverse sampling ratio.","remaining_difference":"It does not, in the accessible description, compare separately retained per-spout samples against independent silo depletion to detect unmeasured paths over an audit window."},{"name":"FLS dry rotary samplers and percentage splitters","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"Commercial equipment already captures proportional samples of falling dry granules or pellets and can produce selected percentage-split outputs.","remaining_difference":"The disclosed products are powered sampling equipment intended for representative analysis; they do not disclose sealed passive witnesses at multiple spouts, combined-tray weak-signal aggregation, or reconciliation against independently weighed inventory depletion."},{"name":"PCAOB inspection, reperformance, and investigation of inconsistent evidence","source_ids":["SRC4"],"overlap":"Established audit practice values direct physical evidence, independent execution, adequate disaggregation, and investigation when evidence sources disagree.","remaining_difference":"The standard does not prescribe a proportional material witness or the proposed gravimetric mass-closure instrument."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","contrastive_claim_remaining":"In a multi-spout dry-pellet system, separately sealed passive fixed-ratio witnesses can be combined to estimate aggregate measured discharge and compared with independently weighed, receipt-adjusted silo depletion, so an out-of-band distributed discrepancy becomes physically inspectable while spout and audit-window context remains available. The novelty-bearing boundary is the combined shrinkage-audit configuration and use, not proportional sampling, sample weighing, or audit reconciliation individually.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim would be falsified by a prior disclosure or established practice combining fixed-ratio retained samples from multiple dispensing points with independent source-inventory depletion for shrinkage reconciliation and contextual localization. Experimentally, it is falsified if predeclared blinded distributed-loss trials cannot be separated from no-loss controls within the calibrated uncertainty band, or if flow rate, pellet grade, vibration, fill level, or retained-mass handling creates comparable false differentials.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The bounded search covered direct phrasing, proportional-sampling and fixed-ratio terminology, commercial equipment and audit standards, and combinations of sampling, weighing, mass balance, and inventory reconciliation. Four opened sources from four publishers include first-party and official sources.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Official evidence supports recurring pellet losses across handling locations, while the audit standard supports the need for reliable physical evidence and recognizes point-in-time observation limits. Support is partial rather than complete because sub-resolution aggregation was not directly evidenced.","source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Although proportional mass estimation and commercial proportional pellet sampling are established, the retained art did not disclose the full multi-spout, sealed-context, independent-depletion shrinkage check. Its incremental claim has measurable inputs, uncertainty limits, controls, and falsifiers.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A closed three-branch benchtop rig with inert pellets, traceable weighing, calibrated splitter ratios, randomized no-loss controls, and blinded known-loss trials can test mass closure, false indications, localization, and repeat-window behavior without production installation.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The proposed first test is reversible and outside production, uses inert surrogate material, and precludes personnel allegations or accounting entries. Commercial sampler disclosures confirm that cutter access and moving-material exposure require engineered safeguards, but no evident prohibition prevents the bounded benchtop test.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"]}},"screen_survival":true,"world_novelty_boundary":"This coarse four-source public-web screen establishes only that the proposal is researchable and that its remaining combined claim was not found in the bounded search. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, realized value, or absence of unindexed, non-English, proprietary, or patent prior art."}