PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748824
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["250", "336100"]

Abstract:
A method for detecting intrinsic radioactivity of radioactive samples includes: providing a sample of material to be subjected to a measurement of emission of X photons from radioactive samples, the sample being stratiform and having two main sides; placing one or more semiconductor-type or bolometer-type detectors near one or two of the two main sides of the sample, the detectors having a surface covering the whole or most of the area of the main sides; measuring the emission of X photons, respectively in the presence and in the absence of the sample, for a predetermined time interval; determining the energetic spectrum of the emission of X photons, respectively in the presence and in the absence of the sample, by measuring the number of counts produced by the emission; subtracting the measurement of the number of counts in the absence of the sample from the measurement of the number of counts in the presence of the sample, thus obtaining a useful measurement of the number of counts; estimating the X-ray detection efficiency with reference to the one or more detectors, the sample, and the energetic spectrum; determining the branching ratio (BR) of each row of the emission of X photons; determining the intrinsic radioactivity as a weighted mean value of the number of counts with respect to the measured values of detection efficiency and branching ratio within the time interval taken into account.

Claim (Index 8):
The apparatus for detecting intrinsic radioactivity of radioactive samples according to  claim 7 , wherein said semiconductor is planar silicon or planar germanium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.8
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15094793', '14688435', '11798017', '11233715', '10343792']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6930018476923407
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5041818773662952
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6741198506597362
- Mean Citation Score: 193.846056
- Max Citation Score: 222.4732
- Similarity Product: 133.13606428506372

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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