PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900165
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["250", "362000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention provide a scintillator material, a scintillator system, and/or a method of detecting incident radiation using a scintillator material, or scintillator system, comprising a polymer material that comprises chromophores. Additional embodiments provide a scintillator material, scintillator system, and/or a method of detecting incident radiation using a sctintillator material, or scintillator system, comprising a polymer material having one, two, three, or more, organic dyes dissolved therein wherein the polymer material having the one, two, three, or more dyes dissolved therein comprises chromophores. At least one of the dyes, termed the base dye, has a concentration in the range 0.5 to 3.5 mol/L. In a specific embodiment, the base dye has a concentration in the range 1.0 to 3.0 mol/L. This base dye concentration is high enough to achieve a substantial triplet-triplet state annihilation rate despite the negligible diffusion of the dye in the rigid polymer matrix.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for detecting incident radiation, comprising:\n positioning a scintillation system in a region of interest, wherein the scintillation system comprises:\n a scintillator composition for converting the incident radiation to scintillation light wherein the scintillator composition comprises: \n a matrix material, wherein the matrix material is a solid organic material, wherein the matrix material comprises chromophores, wherein the chromophores have an average nearest neighbor distance in the range of 0.5 to 12 Angstroms; \n wherein the chromophores produce the scintillation light upon excitation; \n wherein the prompt time component and the delayed time component provide information so as to allow distinguishing between scintillation light created by neutrons and scintillation light created by gamma rays; \n receiving the scintillation light; and \n determining form the received scintillation light whether neutrons were incident on the scintillation system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47826
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14674795', '13430394', '14130050', '15014786', '14055765']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7563852383925891
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6223498345253905
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7429816980058693
- Mean Citation Score: 490.517386
- Max Citation Score: 556.8162
- Similarity Product: 547.149985925281

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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