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 19):
The system of  claim 14 , further comprising:\n a beam-shaping collimator positioned within the trajectory of x-rays and proximal to the multi-aperture collimator, the beam-shaping collimator configured to be adjustable to conform the therapeutic radiation to a shape and size of the target; and a rotatable and translatable gantry on which the x-ray source, the beam-shaping collimator and the multi-aperture collimator are mounted, the gantry being positioned and configured to be rotatable around a horizontal platform on which a subject being treated is located, the gantry being configured to position the target in the trajectory of the orthovoltage x-rays, wherein the gantry is further configured to tilt around a vertical axis to the platform to change a direction from which the target is irradiated with the orthovoltage x-rays, and to rotate around a longitudinal axis of the horizontal platform to generate arcs of radiation from each of the minibeams.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02439
- Patent Class: 378.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15188643', '15318581', '15598716', '13180457', '12100398']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6696676481278221
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5670909462837684
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6594099779434167
- Mean Citation Score: 340.691094
- Max Citation Score: 550.5037
- Similarity Product: 457.1722608502626

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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