PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16053873
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["382", "131000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus, methods, and other embodiments associated with NMR fingerprinting are described. One example NMR apparatus includes an NMR logic that repetitively and variably samples a (k, t, E) space associated with an object to acquire a set of NMR signals that are associated with different points in the (k, t, E) space. Sampling is performed with t and/or E varying in a non-constant way. The NMR apparatus may also include a signal logic that produces an NMR signal evolution from the NMR signals, and a characterization logic that characterizes a resonant species in the object as a result of comparing acquired signals to reference signals. The NMR signal evolution may be assigned to a cluster based on the characterization of the resonant species. Cluster overlay maps may be produced simultaneously based, at least in part, on the clustering. The clusters may be associated with different tissue types.

Claim (Index 31):
The method of  claim 1 , where the set of known signal evolutions includes a signal selected from a set of signals described by: S i = \u2211 s = 1 N s \ue89e \ue89e R s , i \ue89e E s , i \ue89e \u2211 x = 1 i - 1 \ue89e \ue89e R s , x \ue89e E s , x \ue8a0 ( S s , x ) \ue89e \ue89e or S i = \u2211 s = 1 N s \ue89e \ue89e R s , i \ue89e E s , i \ue89e \u220f x = 1 i - 1 \ue89e \ue89e R s , x \ue89e E s , x \ue8a0 ( S s , x ) where: S 0  is the default or equilibrium magnetization, Ns is the number of spins, S i  is a vector that represents the different components of the magnetization Mx, My, Mz during acquisition block i, R i  is the combination of rotational effects that occur during acquisition block i, and E i  is the combination of effects that alter the amount of magnetization in the different states for acquisition block i.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06173
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14257081', '14682142', '14257348', '14257207', '14711879']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4459014562773422
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5933990355222846
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4606512142018364
- Mean Citation Score: 438.186352
- Max Citation Score: 510.05582
- Similarity Product: 474.9617438675999

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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