PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16320951
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["600", "439000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for estimating the location of a wave source based upon low frequency measurements acquired using multiple receivers. In one aspect, a method for estimating an end range of a radiation beam delivered to a target is provided. The method includes controlling a radiation treatment system to deliver a radiation beam inducing at least one low frequency thermoacoustic wave inside a target, and detecting, using receivers positioned about the target, sonic signals corresponding to the at least one low frequency thermoacoustic wave. The method also includes analyzing the sonic signals to determine differences in times-of-flight associated with different receivers, and estimating an end range of the radiation beam by correlating the differences in times-of-flight. The method further includes generating a report indicative of the end range of the radiation beam.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for estimating an end range of a radiation beam delivered to a target, the method comprising:\n a) controlling a radiation treatment system to deliver a radiation beam inducing at least one low frequency thermoacoustic wave inside a target; b) detecting, using receivers positioned about the target, sonic signals corresponding to the at least one low frequency thermoacoustic wave; c) deriving, from the sonic signals, differences in a plurality of times-of-flight of the at least one low frequency thermoacoustic wave to a respective plurality of different receivers; d) estimating an end range of the radiation beam based at least in part upon the differences in the times-of-flight; and e) generating a report indicative of the end range of the radiation beam.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08824
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15327056', '14712214', '14801007', '15370022', '14888363']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4372785834202078
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4638421091251292
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4399349359907
- Mean Citation Score: 156.28753799999996
- Max Citation Score: 162.24059
- Similarity Product: 118.68834755454004

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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