PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16143144
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["378", "065000"]

Abstract:
A method for delivering therapeutic radiation to a target includes positioning a multi-aperture collimator on the skin within a trajectory of orthovoltage x-rays directed at the target, thus generating an array of minibeams, each of width between 0.1 mm to 0.6 mm. The skin is irradiated with the array. An effective beam of therapeutic radiation, which may be a solid beam, is delivered to the target at a predetermined tissue depth by merging adjacent orthovoltage x-ray minibeams sufficiently to form the effective beam. The effective beam may be formed proximal to the target. The depth at which the effective, preferably, solid, beam is formed is controlled by varying one or more of the spacing of the minibeams in the array, the minibeam width, the distance from the x-ray source to the collimator, and the x-ray source spot size. Planar minibeams can be arc-scanned while continuously modulating beam shape and intensity.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the multi-aperture collimator is a multi-slit collimator configured with elongated slits such that the array of minibeams is an array of narrow and elongated planar minibeams.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02439
- Patent Class: 378.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15188643', '15318581', '15598716', '13180457', '12100398']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6899477306369948
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5852011629693861
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6794730738702339
- Mean Citation Score: 340.691094
- Max Citation Score: 550.5037
- Similarity Product: 521.624891178453

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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