PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904735
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["600", "424000"]

Abstract:
Methods, devices, apparatuses and systems are disclosed for performing mammography, such as utilizing tomosynthesis in combination with breast biopsy.

Claim (Index 33):
A method for needle localization for breast biopsy, said method comprising:\n performing a tomosynthesis scan of a patient's breast using a source of an imaging x-ray beam that moves through a multiplicity of imaging positions along a source trajectory, and obtaining image data from the tomosynthesis scan and deriving therefrom tomosynthesis reconstructed slice images representing respective slices of the breast; displaying at least some of the tomosynthesis reconstructed images of the patient's breast; receiving an indication on at least one of said tomosynthesis reconstructed images of an area of interest within said patient's breast, and determining therefrom three-dimensional coordinates of said area of interest; positioning a biopsy needle based on the determined three-dimensional coordinates of the area of interest; and emitting a verification x-ray beam from the source at a verification x-ray position disposed at an orientation to the biopsy needle and breast so as to verify the position of the biopsy needle relative to the area of interest or to verify that tissue located at the area of interest has been removed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.09524
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11707587', '14021624', '13703647', '12715591', '14693863']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4731136791751988
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5632412986669698
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4821264411243759
- Mean Citation Score: 344.666224
- Max Citation Score: 448.70273
- Similarity Product: 409.6551297232575

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

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