PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150138
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["250", "473100"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for producing an improved pulse shape discriminating (PSD) scintillator by including a cross-linking agent, such as BPA-DM, in the polymer from which the scintillator is machined, and to PSD scintillators produced thereby. The cross-linking agent could also be used for plastic scintillators with significant incorporation of specialized dopants (boron, lead or bismuth) for thermal neutron, fast neutron and/or gamma radiation detection.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of using a pulse shaped discriminating scintillator, comprising:\n detecting a neutron with the pulse shaped discriminating scintillator, wherein a material of the pulse shaped discriminating scintillator comprises at least one of:\n a first scintillator, comprising:\n between about 20 wt. % and about 40 wt. % of a first dopant; \n between about 0.1 wt. % and about 1 wt. % of a second dopant; and \n the balance being a polymer of monomers; or \n \n a second scintillator, comprising:\n between about 1 wt. % and about 20 wt. % of a first dopant; \n between about 0.1 wt. % and about 1 wt. % of a second dopant; \n between about 5 wt. % and about 40 wt. % of a third dopant; and \n the balance being a polymer of monomers; \n \n wherein the monomer comprises at least one monomer of a styrene-based monomer, methacrylate monomer, benzyl acrylate, or benzyl methacrylate, and wherein a hardness of the pulse shape discriminating scintillator is between about 15 and about 100 Shore D.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32787
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16057793', '14253754', '13471259', '13437836', '15820960']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6894339737045909
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4942904474657064
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6699196210807025
- Mean Citation Score: 224.564114
- Max Citation Score: 239.67407000000003
- Similarity Product: 170.08778470693173

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

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