{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_light_screen_20260805","cell_id":"progressive_disclosure__accounting_auditing","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["inventory audit weighing homogeneous items quantity weight instead of count audit evidence","nested container compartments weigh separately missing parts inventory","progressive weighing compartments shortage localization inventory"],"source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":"No retained source disclosed the exact combination of recursively nested, removable, separately tared inventory modules weighed branch-by-branch on one noncomputing balance."},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["gravimetric counting compartment bins inventory","checkweighing removable compartments parts count","hierarchical group testing balance weighing missing object","parts counting scale tare check-count inventory"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":"Older and neighboring terminology produced gravimetric counting, parts counting, checkweighing, and weighing-based group localization, but not the proposed physical containment hierarchy."},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["counting scales parts inventory quantity by weight manufacturer","PCAOB AS 2510 auditing inventories physical counts","NIST Handbook 133 packages labeled by count gravimetric audit procedure","modular inventory bins load cells weight monitoring"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["modular bins weighing inventory parts compartments weight sensor","nested compartment weighing localize missing item binary search physical modules","tared container reference mass checkweighing inventory","hierarchical group testing spring scale defective item"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"],"no_result_note":"The search found modular per-bin weighing and gravimetric count verification separately, but no opened source combined nested removable modules, sequential exception-triggered drilldown, physical reference masses, and exterior mechanical exception indicators."}},"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 and physical counts are recognized audit procedures.","The auditor must assess whether inventory-taking methods are reliable and remains responsible for the extent of observation and testing.","When other procedures do not provide satisfaction, accounting records alone are insufficient and the auditor must make or observe some physical counts."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"NIST Handbook 133 (2026), Chapter 4: Test Procedures for Packages Labeled by Count, Linear Measure, Area, Thickness, and Combinations of Quantities","publisher":"National Institute of Standards and Technology","url":"https://www.nist.gov/document/2026-hb-133-chapter-4","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","claims_supported":["Gravimetric procedures can verify count when product density or item weight does not vary excessively.","For packages containing more than 50 items, an audit procedure can infer count from the weight of a counted subset, gross weight, and tare.","If item-weight variation is excessive or the scale lacks sufficient discrimination, actual counting is required.","The gravimetric audit procedure has stated precision limits and is not by itself the prescribed procedure for determining legal lot compliance."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"Parts Counting Solutions","publisher":"Avery Weigh-Tronix","url":"https://www.averyweigh-tronix.com/counting/","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["Commercial counting scales determine bulk quantity from piece weight.","Counting scales are used for screws, bolts, electronic components, and other high-count inventory.","Weight-based counting is positioned as faster than manual inventory control, but the described products return aggregate counts rather than a physical branch-to-leaf discrepancy path."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"System and Methods for Modular Inventory Management (U.S. Patent Application 20220253796)","publisher":"Justia Patents","url":"https://patents.justia.com/patent/20220253796","source_type":"OTHER","claims_supported":["The application discloses modular storage bins coupled to rearrangeable load cells for inventory monitoring.","Individual bins can be continuously weighed, and unit-weight changes can support inference that one or more uniform-weight supplies were removed.","The system can provide quantity or target-condition feedback, but depends on distributed electronic load cells, receivers, and computation rather than sequential mechanical weighing of nested removable branches."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"The aggregate-versus-detail problem is visible: commercial and official procedures use weight to estimate the count of uniform high-count items quickly, while NIST requires actual counting when weight variation or scale discrimination defeats gravimetric inference. An aggregate weight is not location-bearing, and the modular-bin patent obtains localized inventory state only by measuring bins separately. The sources do not directly quantify the proposal's asserted operational disruption or irrelevant-observation burden, so support is partial.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"NIST gravimetric audit procedure for packages labeled by count","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"Uses a scale, tare, reference item weights, tolerance criteria, and an aggregate first-pass audit of high-count goods without opening and counting every package.","remaining_difference":"It evaluates package-level count and escalates to actual counts when assumptions fail; it does not disclose a reusable nested physical hierarchy that sequentially localizes a discrepancy inside one inventory container."},{"name":"Commercial parts-counting and check-counting scales","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"Quickly infer quantities of screws, bolts, and similar uniform parts from total weight and known piece weight, directly addressing the speed burden of manual counting.","remaining_difference":"The disclosed products give aggregate weight or count results and may use software; they do not preserve a mechanically marked summary-to-leaf localization path through removable tared subcontainers."},{"name":"Modular inventory monitoring with separately weighed bins","source_ids":["SRC4"],"overlap":"Combines modular physical bins, uniform-unit-weight inference, separate weight measurements, configurable spatial groupings, and visible inventory-condition feedback.","remaining_difference":"It monitors bins in parallel with distributed load cells, receivers, and computation. It does not disclose recursively nested parent-child modules removed and weighed sequentially on one noncomputing balance after an outer mismatch."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","contrastive_claim_remaining":"For bounded-variation uniform mock inventory, a recursively nested, separately tared cassette used with one calibrated noncomputing balance and physical reference masses can, after an aggregate mismatch, identify the correct discrepant branch at every depth for a single non-offsetting one-unit error while requiring inspection of fewer branches than a complete count; the opened sources show aggregate gravimetric counting or separately instrumented bins, but not this exact physical sequential drilldown.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"Falsify the remaining claim if randomized single-unit shortages or overages within declared tare, load, unit-mass, and tolerance bounds fail to select the correct branch reproducibly, if users cannot map the indicated branch to its leaf from the engravings, or if equivalent localization is achieved by ordinary whole-bin weighing without another detail-producing operation. Equal-mass substitutions and offsetting errors are declared out-of-scope detection limits and must be reported as such rather than counted as successful localization.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The bounded search covered the exact intervention, gravimetric and checkweighing terminology, audit and metrology standards, commercial counting products, modular-bin patents, and combinations with hierarchical weighing. Exactly four opened sources from four publishers were retained, including two official sources and one first-party product source.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The sources establish that weight-based aggregate counting is useful for uniform high-count goods, that its validity depends on item variation and scale discrimination, and that separate bin measurements add location-specific information absent from one aggregate reading. Evidence for disruption cost is indirect, so the underlying problem is partly rather than fully supported.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A testable difference remains between aggregate counting or electronically instrumented bins and a recursively nested, mechanically weighed, exception-triggered branch-to-leaf cassette. Correct branch identification, mapping recovery, comparison count, and failure under substitutions or offsetting errors are observable outcomes.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A 32-unit mock cassette can be bench-tested with randomized missing, extra, wrong-mass, equal-mass, offsetting, tare-shift, and zero-error cases. Record outer detection, branch accuracy, comparisons, indicator notice, and leaf recovery, then compare with whole-bin weighing followed by direct counting. NIST supplies relevant scale-sensitivity, tare, and variation cautions; no deployment or audit-effect claim is needed.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The authorized test is limited to mock, nonbook, nonhazardous inventory on a manually operated calibrated balance, with rollback to direct counting. PCAOB standards preserve the auditor's responsibility for evidence sufficiency and physical-count procedures, so the cassette must not change records or independently determine an audit conclusion. No obvious stop prevents the bounded bench test under those limits.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"]}},"screen_survival":true,"world_novelty_boundary":"This coarse public-web screen supports researchability and an adjacent-prior-art disposition only. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, audit admissibility across jurisdictions, or realized operational value. Patent searching was illustrative rather than exhaustive, and an unindexed patent, product, internal warehouse practice, or older non-English disclosure could eliminate the remaining contrast."}