PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16337339
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["073", "602000"]

Abstract:
A method for high resolution photoacoustic imaging in scattering media using structured illumination may include illuminating a sample of an absorption object with structured illumination, including illuminating the sample with multiple different speckle patterns at different times. The method may also include detecting multiple photoacoustic signals generated by the absorption object in response to illumination with the different speckle patterns to generate multiple photoacoustic responses. The method may also include reconstructing an absorber distribution of the absorption object by exploiting joint sparsity of sound sources in the plurality of photoacoustic responses.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 4 , wherein M is a number of the plurality of photoacoustic responses, N is a number of data points that make up each of the plurality of photoacoustic responses, h is a point spread function (PSF) or a line spread function (LSF) of an ultrasound transducer that detects the plurality of photoacoustic signals, and p m (x i ) is a sound source in an mth one of the plurality of photoacoustic responses at each data point x i .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82692
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13239129', '14913958', '13277074', '13660771', '14565140']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6657255463644431
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4927511613459295
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6484281078625918
- Mean Citation Score: 171.225754
- Max Citation Score: 180.90045
- Similarity Product: 123.2327233032614

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