PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16091515
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["250", "492300"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving treatment information relating to a treatment plan for proton- or ion-beam therapy intended to irradiate a target tissue; receiving machine-limitation information relating to one or more limitations of one or more machines involved in the proton- or ion-beam therapy; determining a time-optimized beam current for a proton or ion beam based on the treatment information and the machine-limitation information, wherein the time-optimized beam current minimizes the time required to deliver a required quantity of monitor units to one of a plurality of spots, wherein each of the plurality of spots is a particular area of the target tissue; and delivering the time-optimized beam current to the particular area.

Claim (Index 18):
The system of  claim 17 , wherein the determining of the time-optimized beam current comprises, for each energy layer of a target volume with respect to a particular field:\n determining a smallest value of prescribed monitor units for the each energy layer from all prescribed spots in the each energy layer; determining a minimum time of exposure required to deliver the prescribed monitor units; calculating a ratio of the smallest value of prescribed monitor units per energy layer to the determined minimum time of exposure; and if the calculated ratio is higher than a maximum beam current specified by the machine-limitation information for a dose-monitor system and a beam-position and beam-shape monitoring system involved in the proton- or ion-beam therapy,\n setting the time-optimized beam current for the each energy layer to the maximum beam current for the dose-monitor system and the beam position and beam shape-monitoring system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17857
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13658843', '13238536', '12439457', '15988750', '15282884']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7108368232772899
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4986581948139222
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6896189604309532
- Mean Citation Score: 233.215152
- Max Citation Score: 235.88237
- Similarity Product: 160.39817146844388

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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