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 8):
The method of  claim 1  wherein the first point source, the first receive element, and the second receive element all lie in a common plane.

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): 0.530116705181291
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5297028774203102
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5300753224051928
- Mean Citation Score: 326.896076
- Max Citation Score: 368.24396
- Similarity Product: 302.5681869062805

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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