PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023782
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["600", "438000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for performing shear wave elastography using push and/or detection ultrasound beams that are generated by subsets of the available number of transducer elements in an ultrasound transducer. These techniques provide several advantages over currently available approaches to shear wave elastography, including the ability to use a standard, low frame rate ultrasound imaging system and the ability to measure shear wave speed throughout the entire field-of-view rather than only those regions where the push beams are not generated.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for measuring a mechanical property of an object using an ultrasound system having an ultrasound transducer that includes a plurality of transducer elements, the steps of the method comprising:\n a) inducing shear waves in the object by using at least one subgroup of transducer elements to transmit a plurality of focused ultrasound beams; b) obtaining elastography data representative of the shear waves by transmitting at least one detection ultrasound beam into the object and receiving echo signals in response thereto; c) processing the obtained elastography data to separate the shear waves into multiple different directional components to reduce effects of interference between the shear waves; and d) calculating a mechanical property of the object using the obtained elastography data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.4
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14397395', '13773340', '15155908', '14341255', '14027476']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4948661459884059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4924422243785323
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4946237538274186
- Mean Citation Score: 205.383054
- Max Citation Score: 292.0753200000001
- Similarity Product: 254.8371971652461

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

Dataset: test