PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748750
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["250", "394000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates a photon counting device and method for counting photon interactions in a piece of converter material and addressing the issue of charge sharing. The occurrence of a charge sharing event is already detected upon the onset of the pulse, taking into consideration an onset of a pulse in a neighboring pixel within a preferably very short coincidence window. According to the invention, it is detected whether a pulse is being processed and one or more neighboring pixels are scouted to decide whether a simultaneous interaction has been registered within a very short coincidence window.

Claim (Index 13):
The photon counting device according to  claim 11 ,\n comprising a switch arranged for preventing the plurality of energy discriminators from receiving the pulse, wherein the arbitration control section is arranged to control such that either the adding section adds the pulse generated by the photon interacting the piece of converter material and the pulse generated by the photon interacting with the neighboring piece of converter material or the switch prevents the plurality of energy discriminators from receiving the pulse.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67213
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14138041', '14502860', '14399358', '14233899', '14784979']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6837502653962569
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5108843251814025
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6664636713747715
- Mean Citation Score: 248.30607200000003
- Max Citation Score: 267.61652000000004
- Similarity Product: 181.72585089894773

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

Dataset: test