PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974617
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.

Claim (Index 29):
A method of operating a reactor comprising:\n a confining wall having a substantially cylindrical inner surface that has an axis, wherein the confining wall at least partially encloses a confinement region; a plurality of electrodes azimuthally distributed along the confining wall; an inlet to the confinement region for permitting introduction of neutrals to the confinement region; at least one magnet configured to provide a magnetic field in the confinement region such that the magnetic field is directed at least in part in a radial direction with respect the substantially cylindrical inner surface; and a reactant attached to or embedded in the confining wall, the method comprising: (i) sequentially applying one or more potentials to each of the plurality of electrodes azimuthally distributed along the confining wall to induce and/or maintain rotational movement of ions and neutrals in the confinement region; (ii) applying a potential difference between two of the plurality of electrodes to produce an electric field in the confinement region such that the electric field is directed at least in part in an axial direction with respect to the substantially cylindrical inner surface, wherein the electric field interacts with the magnetic field to induce and/or maintain the rotational movement of ions and the neutrals in the confinement region; and (iii) transitioning between (i) and (ii), wherein 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: 38.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38462
- Patent Class: 376.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15973306', '15590962', '15589902', '15589913', '15405049']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6755103046139763
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5570113772274699
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6636604118753257
- Mean Citation Score: 388.478172
- Max Citation Score: 436.13455
- Similarity Product: 348.8715892396152

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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