PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920299
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["250", "390110"]

Abstract:
Nuclear reactors are emitters of a fundamental particle known as an antineutrino. The antineutrinos emitted as a result of nuclear fission reactions inside a reactor core carry information about those fission reactions. To detect the antineutrinos emitted by the nuclear reactor, the exemplary detector detects a positron event followed by a neutron event. The exemplary detector can also reconstruct the direction of the detected neutron to remove events produced by cosmogenic fast neutrons from the neutrons generated by the nuclear fission.

Claim (Index 1):
A particle detector, comprising:\n a plurality of optical bundle modules, each optical bundle module comprising a plurality of individual scintillators arranged in a vertical orientation and separated from one another within the optical bundle module; one or more photomultiplier tubes coupled to the plurality of scintillators, the one or more photomultiplier tubes configured to receive light from one or more of the scintillators produced in response to interactions of a particle or a ray emanating from an antineutrino interaction with the one or more scintillators and to generate an associated electrical signal; and a signal processing unit comprising a processor and a memory including instructions stored thereon, the signal processing unit coupled to the one or more photomultiplier tubes to receive electrical signals associated with the interactions of the particle or the ray with the one or more scintillators, wherein the instructions upon execution by the processor configure the signal processing unit to identify the particle or the ray based on at least reception of electrical signals from the plurality of scintillators in a temporal sequence that is indicative of detection of a first type of particle, and reception of electrical signals from a single scintillator that is indicative of detection of a second type of particle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62264
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14553792', '16320941', '14446531', '16069671', '13497739']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7298421639926413
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5163287641034637
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7084908240037237
- Mean Citation Score: 268.928066
- Max Citation Score: 330.83484
- Similarity Product: 258.98367138697387

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

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