PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974592
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. Electron emitters may be employed to provide, during operation, an electron rich region.

Claim (Index 28):
A method of operating a reactor comprising:\n introducing neutrals into a confinement region at least partially enclosed by a confining wall; controlling a voltage and/or current source to apply an electric potential between at least two of a plurality of electrodes adjacent or proximate to the confinement region, wherein the applied electric potential generates an electric field within the confinement region that alone, or in conjunction with a magnetic field, induces and/or maintains rotational movement of charged particles and the neutrals in the confinement region; and emitting electrons from an electron emitter disposed in or adjacent to the confinement region to provide electrons to an electron rich region in the confinement region,\n wherein the rotational movement causes a reactant disposed in or adjacent to the confinement region to undergo repeated collisions with the neutrals that 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: 71.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.39683
- Patent Class: 376.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15590962', '15973306', '15589902', '15589913', '15405049']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6538137733672365
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5608006614245459
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6445124621729674
- Mean Citation Score: 394.695094
- Max Citation Score: 447.0105
- Similarity Product: 367.7758782195747

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

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