PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966415
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["378", "203000"]

Abstract:
A method is disclosed of making a customized intraoral positioning device to be positioned within a patient's mouth for radiation therapy planning and treatment of a head and/or neck of the patient, the method comprising: receiving a prescribed treatment plan using the customized intraoral positioning device, wherein the treatment plan includes a prescribed incisor separation and/or tongue position of the patient for intended treatment; creating impressions of the patient's upper and lower arches of the patient's mouth; introducing a registration device into the patient's mouth to position the upper and lower arches at the prescribed incisor separation, so as to enable a model of the patient's upper and lower arches to be registered; creating models of the patients upper and lower arches based upon the impressions of the patient's upper and lower arches; digitizing the models of the patient's upper and lower arches; assembling the models of the patient's upper and lower arches on registration device; and digitizing the assembly of the models on the registration device so as to obtain a relationship between the upper and lower arches at the prescribed incisor separation.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of making a customized intraoral positioning device to be positioned within a patient's mouth for radiation therapy planning and treatment for a head and/or neck of the patient, the method comprising:\n receiving a prescribed treatment plan for using the customized intraoral positioning device, wherein the prescribed treatment plan includes an incisor separation and/or tongue position of the patient; introducing a registration device into the patient's mouth to a position to align the upper and lower arches at the incisor separation; digitizing the upper and lower arches with the registration device in alignment so as to obtain a relationship between the upper and lower arches at the prescribed incisor separation; and creating a customized intraoral positioning device for the patient based on the relationship between the upper and lower arches at the incisor separation and prescribed treatment plan.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.94203
- Patent Class: 378.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11931514', '10012873', '13014848', '13362584', '10629511']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6980511161089286
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4709535316944237
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.675341357667478
- Mean Citation Score: 254.655108
- Max Citation Score: 272.92392
- Similarity Product: 192.0967286834908

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

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