PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16244739
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["367", "140000"]

Abstract:
An ultrasound circuit comprising a multi-stage trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) is described. The TIA is coupled to an ultrasonic transducer to amplify an electrical signal generated by the ultrasonic transducer in response to receiving an ultrasound signal. The TIA may include multiple stages, at least two of which operate with different supply voltages. The TIA may be followed by further processing circuitry configured to filter, amplify, and digitize the signal produced by the TIA.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of operating an ultrasound circuit, comprising:\n receiving and amplifying, with a first stage of a multi-stage trans-impedance amplifier, an electrical signal output by a an ultrasonic transducer, the first stage of the multi-stage TIA operating at a first supply voltage value; and amplifying, with a second stage of the multi-stage TIA operating at a second supply voltage value different than the first supply voltage value, an output signal of the first stage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51852
- Patent Class: 367.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16244934', '16245202', '14957395', '15288324', '15087943']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5802894802088989
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4863410158335614
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5708946337713652
- Mean Citation Score: 206.569506
- Max Citation Score: 265.46527000000003
- Similarity Product: 230.3674061289501

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

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