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 16):
An apparatus for treating a tumor of a patient in a treatment room with positively charged particles, comprising:\n a synchrotron; a beam transport path configured to deliver the positively charged particles from said synchrotron, the beam transport path redirectable as a function of time to yield a plurality of incident vectors, each of said plurality of incident vectors directed into the treatment room; and at least one output nozzle configured to redirect portions of the positively charged particles traveling along each of said plurality of incident vectors to the tumor,\n wherein a first vector, of said plurality of incident vectors, comprises a first direction entering the treatment room and intersecting the tumor, \n wherein a second vector, of said plurality of incident vectors, comprises a second direction entering the treatment room and not intersecting the tumor, \n said at least one output nozzle configured to: (1) redirect a first portion of the positively charged particles from the first vector to a first tumor treatment path entering a front of the tumor and (2) redirect a second portion of the positively charged particles from the second vector to a second tumor treatment path entering a side of the tumor relative to the front of the tumor.

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): 0.807260891206858
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6355980602409835
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7900946081102705
- Mean Citation Score: 510.67905600000006
- Max Citation Score: 605.23596
- Similarity Product: 590.7941055310107

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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