Appeal No. 2001-0250 Page 22
Application No. 08/283,074
output signal is not described in the Seybert et al
reference." (Appeal Br. at 10.)
Claim 15 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations: "a processor means coupled to said plurality of
pressure-wave-sensing transducers including means for
processing said first and second transduced signals in
accordance with an algorithm that takes into account said
first wave and said second wave to provide said output signal
characteristic of said confined volume geometry." Similarly,
claim 16 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations: "processing said first and second transduced
signals in accordance with an algorithm that takes into
account said first wave and said second wave to provide an
output signal representative of a characteristic of said
confined volume." Giving claims 15 and 16 their broadest
reasonable interpretation, the limitations merely recite
producing a signal representing the cross-sectional area of a
confined volume.
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