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 1):
An ultrasound device, comprising:\n a substrate having a first transducer region and a second transducer region, the first transducer region having a first plurality of ultrasound transducers and the second transducer region having a second plurality of ultrasound transducers; a controller configured to bias the first plurality of ultrasound transducers and the second plurality of ultrasound transducers through a respective first common electrode and a second common electrode; and a biasing source configured to communicate a voltage bias to one or more of the ultrasound transducers, wherein each ultrasound transducer of the first plurality of ultrasound transducers and the second plurality of ultrasound transducers comprises a membrane in communication with a biasing source; and wherein the controller is configured to bias the first plurality of ultrasound transducers independently of the second plurality of ultrasound transducers.

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): 0.8611668249447771
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.487563503011562
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8238064927514557
- Mean Citation Score: 206.524288
- Max Citation Score: 271.43475
- Similarity Product: 227.9698160860688

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