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The retained sources do not demonstrate that complete architecture or its asserted causal provenance.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"rationale":"Four search lanes covered direct wording, historical synonyms such as dummy/filler plates and modular walkways, products and standards, and component combinations. Exactly four opened sources were retained from four publishers, including two first-party product sources and two primary-research sources.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"bounded_next_test":{"rationale":"One unloaded full-scale bay tested with a trolley or pendulum across blanked, installed, and deliberately failed-module states can measure timing variance, surface continuity, mounting repeatability, isolation, and changeover time without athlete exposure. The sources identify relevant surface, force-isolation, configuration, and timing-reliability considerations.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"distinct_testable_claim":{"rationale":"Although modular rails, dummy plates, flush athletic surfacing, timing gates, and multimodal runway measurements already substantially collide with the intervention, the combined timing-first fault-isolation architecture and predecessor-specific causal claim remain falsifiable through records review and comparative bench testing.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"rationale":"The authorized first step is unloaded and preserves later structural, electrical, measurement, ethics, and operational approvals. Matched antislip surfaces, secure connectors, avoidance of force shunts, and flush surfacing are recognized design considerations; athlete use must remain halted until those checks pass.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PASS"},"supported_problem":{"rationale":"The general measurement problem is visible: timing geometry affects reliability, force-platform installations require controlled interfaces, and multimodal athletic testing adds surface, placement, calibration, and synchronization demands. No retained source documents the proposal's particular facility being delayed or degraded by an accumulated successor wish list, so support is partial.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"}},"prior_art_disposition":"SUBSTANTIAL_COLLISION","problem_evidence":{"finding":"Public evidence supports the technical plausibility of interface coupling and the value of preserving controlled timing geometry. It also reveals mature modular force-platform practices and an athletic runway already combining timing gates, movable force plates, blanking plates, flush surfacing, imaging, and EMG. The claimed real facility delay and predecessor-to-successor causal sequence remain unverified.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED"},"research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_light_screen_20260806","schema_version":1,"screen_id":"E13P084","screen_survival":false,"search_lanes":{"component_combination":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["sprint testing timing gates force plates motion capture EMG pressure integrated facility","\"wooden blanking\" \"force plates\" sprint runway timing gates","\"blanking plate\" sprint force plates runway"],"source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"]},"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["modular sprint lane removable force plate blanking plate timing gates instrument bays","instrumented sprint track removable force plates flush cover timing gates"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"products_practices_and_standards":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["modular biomechanics laboratory floor force plate mounting cover plate","ASTM F3109 force platform performance verification official standard","site:worldathletics.org technical rules photocell timing sprint track force plate flush surface"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC4"]},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["\"filler plates\" force platform sprint runway modular","\"dummy plates\" force plates floor modular biomechanics","modular walkway force plate dummy plate antislip"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"]}},"sources":[{"claims_supported":["AMTI sells extensible modular rails permitting force platforms to move in fixed increments.","Matching non-measuring filler plates support reconfiguration and future expansion by later substitution of force platforms."],"publisher":"Advanced Mechanical Technology, Inc. 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It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, market size, expert acceptance, realized value, or the truth of the facility-specific predecessor history."}