PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962696
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["713", "500000"]

Abstract:
An array of ultrasonic transducers can be controlled to produce a steerable beam. Beam steering can be skewed by buffer delays in the distribution of a clock signal. The skew can be at least approximately linearized by distributing the clock signal in a diagonal fashion across an array of buffers corresponding to ultrasonic transducer controllers. Potential error in beam steering that can arise from clock skew can be corrected based on the linear tilt.

Claim (Index 1):
A method, comprising:\n receiving a clock signal at a first tile controller buffer of a plurality of tile controller buffers; receiving the clock signal received at the first tile controller buffer at a second tile controller buffer and a third tile controller buffer at substantially the same time from the first tile controller buffer, the second tile controller buffer being horizontally adjacent to the first tile controller buffer and the third tile controller buffer being vertically adjacent to the first tile controller buffer; and receiving the clock signal received at the first tile controller buffer at a fourth controller buffer from the first tile controller buffer and the clock signal received at the second tile controller buffer at the fourth tile controller buffer, the fourth tile controller buffer being horizontally adjacent to the third tile controller buffer and vertically adjacent to the second tile controller buffer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56
- Patent Class: 713.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13834323', '10981973', '14686749', '14680388', '14736054']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3081128619263708
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.492009211004984
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3265024968342321
- Mean Citation Score: 131.055258
- Max Citation Score: 252.32504
- Similarity Product: 227.001118417778

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test