PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874991
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["702", "056000"]

Abstract:
An ultrasonic material-evaluation or classification method using spectral and envelope-statistics variables from backscattered ultrasound echo signals using an adaptive-bandwidth and combined with global variables. This classification method can be applied to any organ or tissue among biological materials and any non-biological material that produces backscattered signals as a result of microscopic internal in homogeneities such as a crystalline structure.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of classifying material, including biological and non-biological material comprising:\n scanning the material with ultrasound pulses, acquiring backscattered echo signals from the material being classified, generating QUS classifying data based on normalized spectral content obtained from the echo signals and optionally based on global variables associated with the material being classified, adapting a bandwidth over which the normalized spectral content is obtained to provide the QUS classifying data where the bandwidth used is based on signal-to-noise ratio defined as the difference between a peak amplitude of the spectral content and a noise level included in the echo signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.27083
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14893319', '14209864', '12227697', '15511252', '11826082']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1911406341958606
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.473792567724961
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2194058275487707
- Mean Citation Score: 175.671196
- Max Citation Score: 208.30428
- Similarity Product: 167.9876341797495

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

Dataset: test