PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901770
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["250", "281000"]

Abstract:
The invention comprises a method and apparatus for using a multi-layer multi-color scintillation based detector element to image a tumor of a patient using a process of determining residual energies of positively charged particles after passing through the patient, the process comprising the steps of: (1) transmitting the positively charged particles at known energies through the patient and into a multi-layer detector element; (2) detecting first and second secondary photons, resultant from passage of the positively charged particles, respectively from a first layer of a first scintillation material and a second layer of a second scintillation material at two respective layer depths, where the first wavelength range differs from the second wavelength range; (4) determining residual energies of the positively charged particles, using output from the step of detecting; and (5) relating the residual energies to body densities to generate an image.

Claim (Index 6):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , said first scintillation material further comprising:\n a first responsivity to the positively charged particles at least twice as responsive, in terms of number of emitted photons per unit energy released from the positively charged particles, as said second scintillation material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22222
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15402739', '15483714', '15207309', '15868966', '15823070']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7189985032256099
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5098855025800103
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6980872031610499
- Mean Citation Score: 284.291472
- Max Citation Score: 294.22974
- Similarity Product: 229.6169002077341

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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