PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16410949
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["345", "419000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for generating a model of a subject's teeth. Described herein are intraoral scanning methods and apparatuses for generating a three-dimensional model of a subject's intraoral region (e.g., teeth) including both surface features and internal features. These methods and apparatuses may be used for identifying and evaluating lesions, caries and cracks in the teeth. Any of these methods and apparatuses may use minimum scattering coefficients and/or segmentation to form a volumetric model of the teeth.

Claim (Index 12):
An intraoral scanning system, comprising:\n a hand-held wand configured to operate in a plurality of imaging modes, including a near-infrared (near-IR) imaging mode and a visible light imaging mode; a sleeve configure to be placed on a distal end of the hand-held wand; and one or more processors operably connected to the hand-held wand, the one or more processors configured to:\n receive visible light information during a visible light imaging mode and near-IR light information during a near-IR imaging mode; \n determine, in real time, surface information from the visible light information and generate a three-dimensional (3D) surface model of a subject's teeth using the surface information; \n display the 3D surface model on a display screen in real time as the hand-held wand is moved; \n determine, in real time, projections into the subject's teeth from the near-IR light information, and generate images into the subject's teeth from the projections; and \n display, in real time on the display screen, the images into the subject's teeth as the hand-held wand is moved.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70588
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16258516', '15662234', '16188262', '15672248', '16198488']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7810780548320093
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5923281351971537
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7622030628685237
- Mean Citation Score: 544.516668
- Max Citation Score: 569.596
- Similarity Product: 450.4706570558548

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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