PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777863
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["600", "424000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a system for tracking the position of an ultrasonic probe in a body part. It is described to acquire ( 110 ) an X-ray image of a portion of a body part within which an ultrasonic probe ( 20 ) is positioned. First geometrical positional information of the ultrasonic probe in the portion of the body part is determined ( 120 ), utilizing the X-ray image. At least one ultrasonic image comprising a part of a body feature with the ultrasonic probe is acquired ( 130 ), the acquiring ( 130 ) comprising acquiring ( 140 ) an ultrasonic image of the at least one ultrasonic image at a later time than a time of acquisition of the X-ray image. Second geometrical positional information of the ultrasonic probe in the body part at the later time is determined ( 150 ), comprising utilizing the first geometrical positional information and the at least one ultrasonic image comprising the part of the body feature.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for tracking the position of an ultrasonic probe in a body part, comprising:\n a) acquiring an X-ray image of a portion of a body part within which an ultrasonic probe ( 20 ) is positioned; b) determining first geometrical positional information of the ultrasonic probe in the portion of the body part, comprising utilizing the X-ray image; c) acquiring at least one ultrasonic image comprising a part of a body feature with the ultrasonic probe, comprising acquiring an ultrasonic image at a later time than a time of acquisition of the X-ray image; and d) determining second geometrical positional information of the ultrasonic probe in the body part at the later time, comprising utilizing the first geometrical positional information and the at least one ultrasonic image comprising the part of the body feature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.91667
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11311484', '13513921', '10459560', '11114801', '13739299']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4649353470457564
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4707424568828614
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4655160580294669
- Mean Citation Score: 193.869486
- Max Citation Score: 198.70671
- Similarity Product: 152.25702961442113

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

Dataset: test