PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16180242
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["250", "336100"]

Abstract:
When detecting particulate radiation, such as electrons, with a pixelated detector, a cloud of electron/hole pairs is formed in the detector. Using the signal caused by this cloud of electron/hole pairs, a position of the impact is estimated. When the size of the cloud is comparable to the pixel size, or much smaller, the estimated position shows a strong bias to the center of the pixel and the corners, as well to the middle of the borders. This hinders forming an image with super-resolution. By shifting the position or by attributing the electron to several sub-pixels this bias can be countered, resulting in a more truthful representation.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 8  in which estimating the position of the centroid of the electron/hole cloud using the signals generated from the multiple adjacent detector pixels includes dividing the detector pixel into multiple image pixels and allocating the signal magnitude of each of the multiple adjacent detector pixels to a single image pixel within the corresponding detector pixel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.875
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15218465', '15186267', '14434287', '12649987', '12190385']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6744666951912118
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5316384682329142
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6601838724953821
- Mean Citation Score: 202.294556
- Max Citation Score: 345.7126
- Similarity Product: 279.9406406959534

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

Dataset: test