PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16062372
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["600", "453000"]

Abstract:
An exemplary device for detecting a heartbeat of a patient can be provided which can include a transmitter which can provide ultrasonic waves, a receiver that can receive Doppler-shifted ultrasonic waves, and a hardware analyzer coupled to the receiver and which can evaluate a particular moment of the heartbeat of the patient based on a time-dependent signal obtained from the receiver. The hardware analyzer device can comprise a spectrum analyzer configured to extract time-varying frequency component(s) from the time-dependent signal provided by the receiver, and a processing module which can evaluate the moment of the heartbeat based on a variation of at least one of the frequency components in time. The processing module can determine a window of interest (WOI) in time from the variation of the frequency component(s) in time, and the moment when the time-dependent signal provided by the receiver assumes a maximum within the WOI as the moment of the heartbeat.

Claim (Index 39):
A system comprising:\n a magnetic resonance tomography magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus; and a device for detecting a heartbeat of a patient, comprising\n i. a transmitter which is configured to provide ultrasonic waves, \n ii. a receiver configured to receive Doppler-shifted ultrasonic waves, and \n iii. a hardware analyzer coupled to the receiver and configured to evaluate a particular moment of the heartbeat of the patient based on a time-dependent signal obtained from the receiver, wherein the hardware analyzer device comprises:\n a spectrum analyzer configured to extract at least one time-varying frequency component from the time-dependent signal provided by the receiver, and \n a processing module which configures a computer to evaluate the moment of the heartbeat based on a variation of at least one of the frequency components in time, and \n \n wherein the processing module configures the computer to determine (i) a window of interest (WOI) in time from the variation of the at least one of the frequency components in time, and (ii) the moment when the time-dependent signal provided by the receiver assumes a maximum within the WOI as the moment of the heartbeat, and wherein a trigger input of the MRI apparatus that triggers an image acquisition is coupled to the processing module of the device to receive the moment of the heartbeat of the patient, so that image acquisition is triggered at that moment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44928
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11609282', '11609275', '15698954', '15393752', '15037867']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4274208322114096
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4556040837633014
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4302391573665988
- Mean Citation Score: 126.63468300000002
- Max Citation Score: 136.38577
- Similarity Product: 100.52637491020084

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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