PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16443126
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["324", "309000"]

Abstract:
A passive apparatus including a plurality of resonators increases signal-to-noise ratio of radiofrequency signals emitted by a specimen and captured by an MRI machine. The apparatus increases the magnetic field component of radiofrequency energy during signal transmission from the MRI machine to the specimen, and/or reception of signals from the specimen to the MRI machine. Moreover, the apparatus enhances specimen safety by substantially avoiding unwanted generation of an electric field, or an increase in the electric field component of the RF energy. Use of the apparatus improves the images generated by the MRI machine, and/or reduces the time necessary for the MRI machine to capture the image.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for improving operation of an MRI machine characterized by a working frequency, by improving the signal-to-noise ratio of received signals, the apparatus comprising:\n an array of unit cells, the array sized to be disposed within a bore of the MRI machine along with a specimen in the bore, when the MRI machine is imaging the specimen, wherein:\n each unit cell has a resonant frequency, and \n the array has a resonance frequency at or near the working frequency, \n the unit cells configured such that they couple with one another, the array producing, in the signals measured by the MRI machine, a signal-to-noise ratio of at least 50.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98276
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16002458', '13868014', '10532457', '15274056', '13462384']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5498003083649919
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5683455134781881
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5516548288763116
- Mean Citation Score: 246.912756
- Max Citation Score: 471.52655
- Similarity Product: 417.08432947825486

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

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