PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901770
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["250", "281000"]

Abstract:
The invention comprises a method and apparatus for using a multi-layer multi-color scintillation based detector element to image a tumor of a patient using a process of determining residual energies of positively charged particles after passing through the patient, the process comprising the steps of: (1) transmitting the positively charged particles at known energies through the patient and into a multi-layer detector element; (2) detecting first and second secondary photons, resultant from passage of the positively charged particles, respectively from a first layer of a first scintillation material and a second layer of a second scintillation material at two respective layer depths, where the first wavelength range differs from the second wavelength range; (4) determining residual energies of the positively charged particles, using output from the step of detecting; and (5) relating the residual energies to body densities to generate an image.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 12 , further comprising the steps of:\n transmitting the positively charged particles entirely through a backside of said multi-layer detection element relative to the patient; and determining an initial energy of the positively charged particles entering said multi-layer detection element using a response curve generated using said first secondary photons and said second secondary photons.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22222
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15402739', '15483714', '15207309', '15868966', '15823070']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7193644335726077
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5070856774100564
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6981365579563525
- Mean Citation Score: 284.291472
- Max Citation Score: 294.22974
- Similarity Product: 243.2709696166777

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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