PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990530
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["600", "447000"]

Abstract:
Nonlinear ultrasound imaging systems and methods are disclose. In one aspect, a nonlinear ultrasound imaging system includes a first transducer configured to transmit a first ultrasound signal along a scan line, a second transducer configured to sweep a second ultrasound signal along the scan line such that the first and second ultrasound signals intersect at a plurality of voxels, and a third transducer configured to receive echoes associated with interactions of the first and second ultrasound signals at the plurality of voxels. The nonlinear ultrasound imaging system further includes a processor configured to generate an ultrasound image based on the echoes.

Claim (Index 19):
An ultrasound transducer head comprising:\n a first phased transducer array configured to transmit a first ultrasound signal centered at a first frequency; a second phased transducer array configured to transmit a second ultrasound signal centered at a second frequency and non-collinearly with the first ultrasound signal, the first and second frequencies being different; and a third transducer array configured to detect an echo having a frequency that is associated with interaction of the first ultrasound signal and the second ultrasound signal; wherein the first phased traducer array, the second phased transducer array, and the third phased transducer array are included on a common transducer head.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09804
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12808590', '13651957', '11911633', '13900670', '14707383']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4498895896066606
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5005701741056195
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4549576480565565
- Mean Citation Score: 260.89117000000005
- Max Citation Score: 277.5023
- Similarity Product: 212.57441247481108

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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