PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000507
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["600", "443000"]

Abstract:
A Multiple Aperture Ultrasound Imaging system and methods of use are provided with any number of features. In some embodiments, a multi-aperture ultrasound imaging system is configured to transmit and receive ultrasound energy to and from separate physical ultrasound apertures. In some embodiments, a transmit aperture of a multi-aperture ultrasound imaging system is configured to transmit an omni-directional unfocused ultrasound waveform approximating a first point source through a target region. In some embodiments, the ultrasound energy is received with a single receiving aperture. In other embodiments, the ultrasound energy is received with multiple receiving apertures. Algorithms are described that can combine echoes received by one or more receiving apertures to form high resolution ultrasound images. Additional algorithms can solve for variations in tissue speed of sound, thus allowing the ultrasound system to be used virtually anywhere in or on the body.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 2  wherein there are transducer elements disposed within the separation between the transmit aperture and the second receive aperture.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82143
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15364075', '13029907', '14846374', '13730346', '13690989']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5309825488089256
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5299801271405489
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5308823066420879
- Mean Citation Score: 326.896076
- Max Citation Score: 368.24396
- Similarity Product: 266.6119987653303

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

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