PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16143144
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["378", "065000"]

Abstract:
A method for delivering therapeutic radiation to a target includes positioning a multi-aperture collimator on the skin within a trajectory of orthovoltage x-rays directed at the target, thus generating an array of minibeams, each of width between 0.1 mm to 0.6 mm. The skin is irradiated with the array. An effective beam of therapeutic radiation, which may be a solid beam, is delivered to the target at a predetermined tissue depth by merging adjacent orthovoltage x-ray minibeams sufficiently to form the effective beam. The effective beam may be formed proximal to the target. The depth at which the effective, preferably, solid, beam is formed is controlled by varying one or more of the spacing of the minibeams in the array, the minibeam width, the distance from the x-ray source to the collimator, and the x-ray source spot size. Planar minibeams can be arc-scanned while continuously modulating beam shape and intensity.

Claim (Index 17):
The system of  claim 13 , wherein the width of the multi-aperture collimator is between about 0.25 mm and about 0.35 mm, and wherein the orthovoltage x-ray tube operates in a range between about 100 kVp and about 500 kVp.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02439
- Patent Class: 378.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15188643', '15318581', '15598716', '13180457', '12100398']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6997154041681338
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5566662989251938
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6854104936438398
- Mean Citation Score: 340.691094
- Max Citation Score: 550.5037
- Similarity Product: 406.04869012329584

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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