PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973306
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-02
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.

Claim (Index 30):
A method of operating a reactor comprising:\n applying an electric potential between at least two of a plurality of electrodes in the reactor comprising:\n a confining wall at least partially enclosing a confinement region, \n the plurality of electrodes adjacent or proximate to the confinement region,\n a control system comprising a voltage and/or current source configured to apply the electric potential between the at least two of the plurality of electrodes, wherein the applied electric potential generates an electric field within the confinement region, and \n a reactant disposed in or adjacent to the confinement region; \n wherein the electric field in the confinement region, acting alone or in conjunction with a magnetic field, induces and/or maintains rotational movement of charged particles and neutrals in the confinement region; wherein, during operation of the reactor, the confinement region proximate the reactant comprises an electron-rich region having an excess of electrons over positively charged particles of at least about 10 6 /cm 3 ; and wherein, during operation of the reactor, repeated collisions between the neutrals and the reactant 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: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38462
- Patent Class: 376.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15589902', '15590962', '15589913', '15405049', '11707282']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.687463179418399
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5747349850220514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6761903599787643
- Mean Citation Score: 392.476738
- Max Citation Score: 484.44962
- Similarity Product: 369.65129360558745

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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