PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905266
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["250", "363050"]

Abstract:
A customizable and upgradable imaging system is provided. Imaging detector columns are installed in a gantry to receive imaging information about a subject. Imaging detector columns can extend and retract radially as well as be rotated orbitally around the gantry. The gantry can be partially populated with detector columns and the detector columns can be partially populated with detector elements.

Claim (Index 11):
An imaging system, comprising:\n a gantry having a bore configured to accept a patient, the bore defining a circumference and a central axis extending along a center of the bore, the gantry configured to rotate about the center of the bore; plural imaging detector columns attached to the gantry, each detector column comprising a detector arm and a detector head, each detector arm extending radially toward the center of the bore from the gantry, each detector head coupled to a corresponding detector arm and comprising at least one detector element, wherein each detector head is configured to be radially articulable toward and away from the center of the bore, and each detector head is configured to be pivotable with respect to the corresponding detector arm around a sweep pivot axis, each sweep pivot axis extending parallel to the central axis extending along the center of the bore, wherein each detector head defines a length extending along the corresponding sweep pivot axis, wherein at least some of the detector heads include plural detector element locations extending along the length, each detector element location configured to accept a corresponding detector element, each detector element configured to receive photons during acquisition of imaging information, wherein the system is configured for some of the detector element locations are configured to be vacant during acquisition of imaging information; and at least one processor operably coupled to the detector columns and configured to independently control the imaging detector columns, and to acquire imaging information with the detector elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68421
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14925148', '15431141', '14135751', '14612398', '14841133']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7380891208427026
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5197413722950781
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7162543459879402
- Mean Citation Score: 300.35197
- Max Citation Score: 324.53815
- Similarity Product: 216.85550720652927

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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