PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975544
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["600", "445000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for acquisition of volumetric breast images for screening and/or diagnosing breast cancers using a rotary scanning template and transducer.

Claim (Index 23):
An automated method of imaging a patient's breast with ultrasound, comprising:\n compressing the breast with one side of a membrane that permits transmission of ultrasound therethrough and is permeable to ultrasound couplant, and pressing the other side of the membrane with a rotary template that has at least one radially extending ultrasound transducer integrated therewith; positioning the breast's nipple in a nipple hole in the template and a nipple opening in the membrane aligned with said nipple hole; driving the template with a motor to rotate the template and said one or more transducers relative to the membrane and the breast; generating original, two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound images from outputs of said one or more transducers, which images conform to respective radially oriented planes; and processing the original 2D images into other images of the breast and displaying selected ones of said original and other images.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.14286
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14076989', '14070336', '15716650', '14555408', '13296023']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5334494163495298
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.523157981676024
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5324202728821792
- Mean Citation Score: 338.6410360000001
- Max Citation Score: 369.345
- Similarity Product: 312.48672371149064

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

Dataset: test