{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_light_screen_20260805","cell_id":"modular_decomposition__accounting_auditing","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["bulk solids inventory hopper weighing load cells inventory accuracy receipt lots commingled","modular weigh hopper multiple bins individual weighing aggregate scale bulk material"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["removable hopper quick-release coupling weigh scale bulk material","combination weigher multiple weigh hoppers movable bins segregation"],"source_ids":["SRC4"],"no_result_note":"Older removable-hopper and combination-weigher terminology produced adjacent mechanisms, but no retained source disclosed the complete audit-oriented cassette-rack combination; that bounded miss is not novelty evidence."},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["load cell based inventory systems bins silos hoppers entire vessel tare calibration","NIST Handbook 44 multiple load-receiving elements summing indicator test weights"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["multiple movable hoppers each weighing mechanism bulk material patent","multiple independent load-receiving elements summed indication scale"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"],"no_result_note":"The opened sources separately disclose multiple locally weighed bulk hoppers and summed indications, but not a second physically independent whole-rack balance beneath persistent receipt-lot cassettes."}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"AS 2510: Auditing Inventories","publisher":"Public Company Accounting Oversight Board","url":"https://pcaobus.org/oversight/standards/auditing-standards/details/AS2510","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","claims_supported":["Inventory observation is a generally accepted auditing procedure.","Auditors ordinarily use observation, tests, and inquiries to assess inventory-taking methods and quantities.","Accounting-record tests alone are insufficient when the auditor has not otherwise obtained satisfaction about inventory quantities; physical counts and appropriate tests are necessary."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"NIST Handbook 44 (2026), Section 2.20: Scales","publisher":"National Institute of Standards and Technology","url":"https://www.nist.gov/document/2026-nist-handbook-44-section-220","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","claims_supported":["The standard expressly addresses scales having multiple load-receiving elements with independent weighing systems and systems having summed indications.","It defines an independent element as having its own displayed weight and addresses accuracy limits for individual elements and summed indications.","It specifies verification using known test weights, shift tests, substitution or strain-load tests, and applicable tolerances.","It recognizes statutory-authority involvement when testing loads would create an unsafe condition."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"Load Cell-Based Inventory Systems for Bulk Materials","publisher":"Powder & Bulk Solids, Informa Markets","url":"https://www.powderbulksolids.com/storage/load-cell-based-inventory-systems-for-bulk-materials","source_type":"TRADE_PROFESSIONAL","claims_supported":["Bulk-material inventory presents measurement challenges involving enclosed bins, silos, and hoppers, shifting loads, compaction, and density variation.","A conventional load-cell inventory system measures the entire storage vessel and contents, combines the load-cell signals, and reports a single gross or net vessel weight after tare.","Known weights or known material loads are established calibration practices.","Granules, powders, pellets, and industrial raw materials are established applications for hopper or silo gravimetry."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"US20150191318A1: System and Method for Dispensing Bulk Material","publisher":"Google Patents","url":"https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150191318A1/en","source_type":"OTHER","claims_supported":["The patent publication discloses multiple movable hoppers for bulk material, each capable of moving independently between storage chutes and receiving areas.","A hopper can be mounted through a weighing mechanism, and load cells can measure the bulk material held in each hopper.","Separate compartments and segregation of bulk materials are disclosed.","The system is directed to transfer and vehicle loading, relies principally on electronic control, and does not disclose an independent whole-rack platform balance for reconciling persistent receipt-lot inventory modules."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"The general problem is visible: auditors require independent physical evidence of inventory quantity, while a conventional hopper load-cell installation produces one whole-vessel net mass. It follows mechanically that this single aggregate reading cannot identify which commingled receipt lot changed. The retained sources do not directly document the claimed specialty-alloy setting, the frequency of receipt-level discrepancies, or the asserted need to empty most of the hopper, so those setting-specific assertions remain only partly supported.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"Whole-vessel load-cell inventory systems for bins, silos, and hoppers","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"Directly measures stored granular-material mass, subtracts known vessel tare, supports calibration with known loads, and can provide inventory records.","remaining_difference":"It preserves one aggregate measurement boundary and therefore does not physically localize a discrepancy among commingled receipt lots."},{"name":"US20150191318A1 multiple movable, individually weighed bulk-material hoppers","source_ids":["SRC4"],"overlap":"Partitions bulk material into separate gated hoppers, associates weighing mechanisms or load cells with individual hoppers, and permits independent hopper movement and discharge.","remaining_difference":"The hoppers are transfer devices rather than persistent receipt-lot inventory cassettes; the disclosure does not provide passive local kilogram displays or a separate whole-rack balance that independently checks the local readings."},{"name":"Handbook 44 multiple independent load-receiving elements with individual and summed indications","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"Recognizes multiple independent weighing elements, individual displayed weights, and an aggregate summed indication, together with testing and accuracy requirements.","remaining_difference":"A summed indication reuses component weighing signals and is not the proposal's physically independent aggregate gravimetry; the standard also does not prescribe removable receipt-lot cassettes or audit localization."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","contrastive_claim_remaining":"For equal stored capacity and predeclared instrument tolerances, persistent receipt-lot cassettes with directly readable local masses plus a physically separate whole-rack balance will localize a blinded addition or removal to a bounded cassette set while retaining an independent aggregate check; the opened prior art instead provides either one whole-vessel reading, separately weighed transfer hoppers, or an electronically summed indication.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim is falsified if an existing product, practice, standard, or earlier publication shows persistent removable bulk-storage modules that each provide local mass while a separate physical balance independently weighs the assembled whole, or if a blinded bench comparison shows that cassette changes cannot be localized and reconciled within predeclared uncertainty without moving substantially the same material scope as the monolithic-bin baseline.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The bounded search covered the proposal directly, older hopper and combination-weigher terminology, conventional inventory products and legal-metrology standards, and combinations of movable hoppers, independent weighing elements, and aggregate indications. Exactly four opened sources from four publishers were retained, including two official standards. This is adequate only for a coarse screen.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Official audit requirements establish the need for physical inventory evidence, and industry evidence establishes that conventional hopper gravimetry reports the entire vessel as one inventory mass. The precise alloy use case is not independently documented, so the evidence is partial rather than complete.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The remaining claim distinguishes a separate physical aggregate balance from both monolithic vessel weighing and signal-based summation, and predicts measurable localization under blinded perturbations. It can be falsified by closer prior art or bench results.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A six-cassette inert-granule bench comparison is bounded, reversible, and measures localization accuracy, local-plus-tare versus independent-rack reconciliation, repeatability, and material-handling scope. Calibration with known weights, shift loading, and substitution or strain-load concepts are consistent with established scale-testing practice.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The proposed first test is freestanding, uses inert non-production granules, excludes ledger use and production modification, imposes load limits, and has explicit leak, binding, tipping, and repeatability halt conditions. Commercial, custody-transfer, or financial-statement use would require applicable metrology and accounting authority, but those uses are expressly outside the first test.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"]}},"screen_survival":true,"world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded four-source screen supports only an adjacent-prior-art disposition and a testable remaining contrast. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, cost advantage, or realized accounting value."}