PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16245310
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["600", "437000"]

Abstract:
Circuitry for ultrasound devices is described. A multi-level pulser is described, which can support time-domain and spatial apodization. The multi-level pulser may be controlled through a software-defined waveform generator. In response to the execution of a computer code, the waveform generator may access master segments from a memory, and generate a stream of packets directed to pulsing circuits. The stream of packets may be serialized. A plurality of decoding circuits may modulate the streams of packets to obtain spatial apodization.

Claim (Index 5):
A method of controlling a plurality of pulsers coupled to a plurality of ultrasonic transducers, the method comprising:\n transmitting a first packet to at least one pulser of the plurality of pulsers, the first packet comprising a first value representing a first reference voltage selected from a plurality of selectable reference voltages; providing a first control signal to represent a first duration of a first pulse segment; in response to transmitting the first packet to the at least one pulser of the plurality of pulsers, setting the at least one pulser of the plurality of pulsers to a first state corresponding to the first reference voltage throughout the first duration of the first pulse segment; transmitting a second packet to the at least one pulser of the plurality of pulsers, the second packet comprising a second value representing a second reference voltage selected from the plurality of selectable reference voltages; providing a second control signal to represent a second duration of a second pulse segment; in response to transmitting the second packet to the at least one pulser of the plurality of pulsers, setting the pulser of the plurality of pulsers to a second state corresponding to the second reference voltage throughout the second duration of the second pulse segment; wherein the plurality of selectable reference voltages comprises at least three reference voltages.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71154
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15087914', '15659134', '15087943', '11172599', '14561504']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4806875204417803
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4857724842860343
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4811960168262057
- Mean Citation Score: 223.664222
- Max Citation Score: 252.73143
- Similarity Product: 198.322745846116

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

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