PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974617
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["376", "113000"]

Abstract:
Methods, apparatuses, devices, and systems for producing and controlling and fusion activities of nuclei. Hydrogen atoms or other neutral species (neutrals) are induced to rotational motion in a confinement region as a result of ion-neutral coupling, in which ions are driven by electric and magnetic fields. The controlled fusion activities cover a spectrum of reactions including aneutronic reactions such as proton-boron-11 fusion reactions.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of operating a reactor comprising:\n a confining wall having a substantially cylindrical inner surface that has an axis, wherein the confining wall at least partially encloses a confinement region; a plurality of electrodes azimuthally distributed along the confining wall; an inlet to the confinement region for permitting introduction of neutrals to the confinement region; at least one magnet configured to provide a magnetic field in the confinement region such that the magnetic field is directed at least in part in the direction of the axis of the substantially cylindrical inner surface; and a reactant attached to or embedded in the confining wall, the method comprising: (i) sequentially applying one or more potentials to each of the plurality of electrodes azimuthally distributed along the confining wall to induce and/or maintain rotational movement of ions and neutrals in the confinement region; (ii) producing an electric field in the confinement region directed at least in part in a radial direction with respect to the substantially cylindrical inner surface, wherein the electric field interacts with the magnetic field to induce and/or maintain the rotational movement of ions and the neutrals in the confinement region; and (iii) transitioning between (i) and (ii), wherein repeated collisions between the neutrals and the reactant produce an interaction with the reactant that gives off energy and produces a product having a nuclear mass that is different from a nuclear mass of any of the nuclei of the neutrals and the reactant.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38462
- Patent Class: 376.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15973306', '15590962', '15589902', '15589913', '15405049']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6757829035839786
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5564227785822593
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6638468910838068
- Mean Citation Score: 388.478172
- Max Citation Score: 436.13455
- Similarity Product: 343.65941044045684

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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