PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102063
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["250", "518100"]

Abstract:
A process for treating highly localized carcinoma cells that provides precise positioning of a therapeutic source of highly ionizing but weakly penetrating radiation, which can be shaped so that it irradiates essentially only the volume of the tumor. The intensity and duration of the radiation produced by the source can be activated and deactivated by controlling the neutron flux generated by an array of electrically controlled neutron generators positioned outside the body being treated. The energy of the neutrons that interact with the source element can be adjusted to optimize the reaction rate of the ionized radiation production by utilizing neutron moderating material between the neutron generator array and the body. The source device may be left in place and reactivated as needed to ensure the tumor is eradicated without exposing the patient to any additional radiation between treatments. The source device may be removed once treatment is completed.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of treating localized carcinoma cells in a body of an animal comprising the steps of:\n positioning a therapeutic source that is substantially nonradioactive when not exposed to a neutron source below a given activity, but becomes a source of highly ionizing but weakly penetrating radiation when exposed to a neutron field at or above the given activity, within the body in the vicinity of the carcinoma cells; irradiating the therapeutic source from outside the body with a neutron field at or above the given activity for a prescribed period of time; and repeating the irradiating step at prescribed intervals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63158
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10016044', '10420184', '13658843', '12719284', '10288071']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6480567144988155
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.481977894734124
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6314488325223464
- Mean Citation Score: 159.48395399999995
- Max Citation Score: 167.39303999999996
- Similarity Product: 111.9819477703142

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

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