PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16181386
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["250", "395000"]

Abstract:
A photon counting system includes a photon sensor, a charge-sensitive amplifier (CSA) and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The CSA is configured to convert photon energy detected by the photon sensor to voltage pulses. The ADC is configured to digitize the voltage pulses generated by the CSA. The ADC includes successive approximation circuitry. The successive approximation circuitry includes an N-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC), an N-bit successive approximation register (SAR), a plurality of N-bit registers, and a multiplexer configured to selectively route outputs of the SAR and outputs of the N-bit registers to the DAC for conversion to an analog signal.

Claim (Index 3):
The photon counting system of  claim 1 , wherein the ADC comprises a mode selection input for reception of a signal that controls whether the multiplexer routes outputs of the SAR or the N-bit registers to the DAC.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27451
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15667445', '15932293', '15309036', '15993432', '11633368']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6912016112053495
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5691222452883288
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6789936746136473
- Mean Citation Score: 249.538098
- Max Citation Score: 430.93124000000006
- Similarity Product: 427.65186902833466

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

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