PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970987
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["310", "300000"]

Abstract:
Electrical biasing of ultrasonic transducers of an ultrasound device is described. The ultrasonic transducers may be capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs). The ultrasonic transducers may be grouped together, with the different groups receiving different bias voltages. The bias voltages for the various groups of ultrasonic transducers may be selected to account for differences between the groups.

Claim (Index 8):
A method to operate an ultrasound device having a substrate and a plurality of ultrasonic transducers, the method comprising:\n electrically biasing, at a first bias voltage, a first bias electrode comprising a first common membrane corresponding to a first group of ultrasonic transducers of the plurality of ultrasonic transducers; and electrically biasing, at a second bias voltage, a second bias electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 310.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14957098', '14337813', '14561504', '13774301', '15177899']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8619099095048174
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.479734181249152
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8236923366792508
- Mean Citation Score: 206.524288
- Max Citation Score: 271.43475
- Similarity Product: 255.22394417828323

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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