PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023782
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["600", "438000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for performing shear wave elastography using push and/or detection ultrasound beams that are generated by subsets of the available number of transducer elements in an ultrasound transducer. These techniques provide several advantages over currently available approaches to shear wave elastography, including the ability to use a standard, low frame rate ultrasound imaging system and the ability to measure shear wave speed throughout the entire field-of-view rather than only those regions where the push beams are not generated.

Claim (Index 5):
The method as recited in  claim 1 , wherein step b) includes:\n i) dividing the transducer elements in the ultrasound transducer into a plurality of subgroups of transducer elements; ii) successively transmitting a set of ultrasound beams using a different subgroup of transducer elements, thereby successively transmitting ultrasound to different regions in the object; iii) repeating step ii) at a pulse repetition frequency such that each set of ultrasound beams is effectively repeated at the pulse repetition frequency.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.4
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14397395', '13773340', '15155908', '14341255', '14027476']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5240193622337508
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4980429951370631
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5214217255240821
- Mean Citation Score: 205.383054
- Max Citation Score: 292.0753200000001
- Similarity Product: 239.28127474717147

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

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