PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16458228
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["073", "589000"]

Abstract:
The invention provides embodiments of an apparatus and for improved, higher quality and higher resolution acoustic impedance scanning of an object through a barrier. Such acoustic impedance scanning can be employed to obtain biometric information of a person via fingerprint pattern.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for acoustically scanning a target, comprising:\n a barrier having a first side and a second side that each face in substantially opposing directions; and an acoustic sensor having a first transmitting side through which acoustic energy is transmitted away from said acoustic sensor, wherein said first transmitting side of said acoustic sensor is positioned so that it abuts said first side of said barrier, and positioned so that said acoustic sensor is configured to transmit said acoustic energy through said barrier and towards a target abutting said second side of said barrier, said acoustic sensor is configured to measure acoustic impedance of said target within a measurement time window while simultaneously transmitting said acoustic energy, wherein said measurement time window initiates following an initial transmission of acoustic energy from said acoustic sensor, and terminates no later than upon an occurrence of two round trip travel times, and each said round trip travel time is an amount of time required for said acoustic energy to transmit from said acoustic sensor to said target and to reflect from said target and arrive back to said acoustic sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.29412
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15299202', '14478671', '14174761', '14928898', '14474160']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6786801994814922
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5115280093812727
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6619649804714702
- Mean Citation Score: 161.93656819999995
- Max Citation Score: 320.60388
- Similarity Product: 301.8222418644047

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