PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16259740
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["600", "439000"]

Abstract:
A medical device that includes an array of ultrasound elements and an integrated circuit, proximal to the ultrasound elements, having a thickness of less than 40 μm, and having an array of ultrasound element driving-and-receiving contacts, matching the array of ultrasound elements and collectively electrically connected to each of the ultrasound elements. The integrated circuit also having a set of input-output signal contacts, the set being collectively switchable into contact with any one of a set of predefined blocks of driving-and-receiving contacts, and a set of control contacts, wherein inputs received by the control contacts collectively command some aspect of chip operation. The medical device further includes a set a protective covering.

Claim (Index 1):
An intravenous ultrasound catheter having a distal tip and comprising:\n (a) a forward-facing array of ultrasound elements near to said distal tip of said device; (b) an integrated circuit (IC) die, abutting and proximal to said ultrasound elements, having a thickness of less than 80 \u03bcm, and having:\n (i) a first face, facing said forward-facing array, and having an array of ultrasound element driving and receiving contacts, in mating arrangement to said array of ultrasound elements, so that said array of ultrasound element driving and receiving contacts collectively physically abut and electrically connect to each of said ultrasound elements; \n (ii) a second face, opposed to said first face, and having a set of input-output signal contacts, said set being fewer in number than said array of ultrasound element driving and receiving contacts and each being switchable into contact with any one of a set of said ultrasound element driving and receiving contacts, said second face also having a set of control contacts, wherein inputs received by said control contacts positively collectively command some aspect of operation of said IC die; and \n (iii) a set of amplifiers, interposed between said first face and said second face, including an amplifier for each one of said driving and receiving electrical contacts; \n (iv) wherein impedance of said ultrasound element driving and receiving contacts is matched to impedance of said ultrasound elements; \n (c) a flex circuit assembly, proximal to said integrated circuit and including coax cables and a contact portion, having a set of contact pads abutting and electrically connecting said input-output signal contacts of said IC die, to said coax cables; and (d) backing material, abutting and directly proximal to said contact portion, thereby forming an interface and wherein said backing material and said contact portion material have equal acoustic impedance, thereby preventing reflection at said interface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03333
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15633716', '14192284', '14762944', '12122456', '10661269']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4305605385324025
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5111388987032718
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4386183745494895
- Mean Citation Score: 189.07514
- Max Citation Score: 320.91336
- Similarity Product: 314.35504424071314

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