PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975544
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["600", "445000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for acquisition of volumetric breast images for screening and/or diagnosing breast cancers using a rotary scanning template and transducer.

Claim (Index 1):
An automated system for scanning a patient's breast with ultrasound, comprising:\n a scanning pod including:\n a housing and a membrane that is secured to one side of the housing, transmits ultrasound, and is permeable to coupling gel; \n a scanning template mounted in or to the housing to rotate relative to the membrane and having a nipple hole; \n wherein said template is essentially planar or has an opening angle of more than 150 degrees or a radius of more than 20 cm; \n at least one transducer radially extending outwardly from the nipple hole and integrated with the template to rotate therewith; and \n a motor configured to rotate the template and the at least one transducer relative to the membrane; \n wherein said scanning pod is configured to press the patient's breast with said membrane toward the patient's chest wall to thereby at least partly flatten the breast, with the breast's nipple in the nipple hole of the template; wherein said at least one transducer is configured to make ultrasound contact with the breast through the membrane and coupling gel permeating the membrane when the scanning pod is pressing the breast, and to rotatably scan the breast with said at least one transducer by rotating the template to thereby generate plural, radially oriented, original two-dimensional (2D) images of the breast; a computer processing system configured to receive said 2D original images and to process them into at least one three-dimensional (3D) image of the breast and other images of the breast; and a display coupled with the processing system to display said images.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.14286
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14076989', '14070336', '15716650', '14555408', '13296023']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5336367916528258
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5231987701665196
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5325929895041952
- Mean Citation Score: 338.6410360000001
- Max Citation Score: 369.345
- Similarity Product: 304.9143791127205

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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