PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16040434
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["606", "034000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for treating a tumor and vaccinating against cancer are described. The techniques include treating the tumor by positioning electrodes over an interface between the tumor and non-tumor tissue and applying sub-microsecond pulsed electric fields. The positioning is facilitated by an imaginary contour line of a threshold value of the electric field. In an example, the imaginary contour line is overlaid over images that include the tumor such that the electrodes are properly positioned over the tumor. The techniques also include vaccinating against cancer by passing sub-microsecond pulsed electric fields through tumor cells of a subject sufficient to cause the tumor cells to express calreticulin on surface membranes. The tumor cells are extracted and introduced with the expressed calreticulin into the subject or another subject, thereby providing a vaccination.

Claim (Index 1):
A non-transitory storage medium storing instructions that, upon execution on a computing system, cause the computing system to:\n access an image captured by an imaging device, wherein the image shows ends or other portions of a set of electrodes, a tumor, and a non-tumor tissue; identify a boundary of the tumor; generate an imaginary contour of a threshold value of an electric field, wherein the electric field is generated based on a voltage between electrodes of the set of electrodes; compare the boundary of the tumor to the imaginary contour; and generate a feedback to align the set of electrodes over the tumor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92958
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15671014', '14954630', '14287957', '14805828', '15873810']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7397404591580405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.520192498288529
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7177856630710894
- Mean Citation Score: 247.619064
- Max Citation Score: 365.19083
- Similarity Product: 307.00414410430915

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

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