PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868925
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["250", "492300"]

Abstract:
The invention comprises a method and apparatus for treating a tumor with protons using multiple beamline positions not having an isocenter, including the steps of: (1) delivering the protons from a synchrotron along a redirectable beam transport path to yield a plurality of incident vectors, each of the plurality of incident vectors directed toward the treatment room and (2) redirecting the protons traveling along each of the plurality of incident vectors, with an output nozzle, to the tumor, where a first vector, of the plurality of incident vectors, comprises a first direction intersecting the tumor and where a second vector, of the plurality of incident vectors, comprises a second direction passing by the tumor without entering the tumor. The step of redirecting directs the protons traveling along the first and second incident vectors, respectively, to a first and second path intersecting a front and the back of the tumor.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising the step of:\n sequentially disconnecting said output nozzle from a first beamline of said beam transport path, moving said output nozzle, and connecting said output nozzle to a second beamline of said beam transport path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45588
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15432724', '15467915', '15430208', '15483566', '15474916']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8092831219420582
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6275813883102556
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7911129485788779
- Mean Citation Score: 510.67905600000006
- Max Citation Score: 605.23596
- Similarity Product: 562.0347466850924

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