PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873633
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["600", "438000"]

Abstract:
Sparse tracking is used in acoustic radiation force impulse imaging. The tracking is performed sparsely. The displacements are measured only one or a few times for each receive line. While this may result in insufficient information to determine the displacement phase shift and/or maximum displacement over time, the resulting displacement samples for different receive lines as a function of time may be used together to estimate the velocity, such as with a Radon transform. The estimation may be less susceptible to noise from the scarcity of displacement samples by using compressive sensing.

Claim (Index 19):
The system of  claim 18  wherein the receive beamformer is operable to simultaneously receive beamform along N receive lines where N is an integer greater than one, the receive beamformer configured to measure N of the displacements at each of the sample times with the receive lines for the displacements being randomly positioned over XN of the receive lines, where X is two or greater, and wherein the processor is configured to estimate the velocity in response to only the excitation pulse.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43478
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14595127', '15209180', '15094883', '13801400', '14160440']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5481197486104393
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5600191641728517
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5493096901666805
- Mean Citation Score: 355.17231400000014
- Max Citation Score: 498.29248
- Similarity Product: 350.9100829824066

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

Dataset: test