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 2):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n receiving ultrasound echoes from the target region with third and fourth receiving elements of a second receive aperture, the second receive aperture separated from the first transmit aperture and the first receive aperture; digitizing phase information and magnitude information of the ultrasound echoes received at the third receiving element as third echo data, and digitizing phase information and magnitude information of the ultrasound echoes received at the fourth receiving element as fourth echo data; retrieving position data describing a mechanical and acoustic position of each of the third receiving element, the fourth receiving element relative to the common reference point; determining, using the position data, a third time for the waveform to propagate from the first point source to a first pixel location in the target region and return to the third receiving element, and determining a fourth time for the waveform to propagate from the first point source to the first pixel location in the target region to return to the fourth receiving element; and forming a second image of the first pixel location by combining magnitude and phase of the third echo data received at the third receiving element with magnitude and phase of the fourth echo data received at the fourth receiving element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82143
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15364075', '13029907', '14846374', '13730346', '13690989']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4998009591618954
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5272109108597979
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5025419543316857
- Mean Citation Score: 326.896076
- Max Citation Score: 368.24396
- Similarity Product: 328.6943611194277

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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