PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014169
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["607", "046000"]

Abstract:
An auricular peripheral nerve field stimulator includes an electrical stimulation device for generating electrical stimulation signals, at least one therapy electrode electrically coupled to the stimulation device and configured for percutaneous insertion into an auricle of a human ear near at least one neurovascular bundle, a processor, and a memory with software executable by the processor to (i) control the stimulation device to generate and deliver to the inserted at least one therapy electrode the stimulation signals at a selected frequency with one of a positive and a negative pulse relative to a reference to stimulate at least one auricular peripheral nerve field within the auricle, (ii) continually repeat (i) for a first duration, (iii) following expiration of the first duration, control the stimulation device to generate no stimulation signals for a second duration, and (iv) repeat (i) through (iii) with the stimulation signals having a modulated frequency.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 19 , wherein percutaneously inserting at least one needle of each of the plurality of therapy electrodes into the auricle near one or more auricular neurovascular bundles comprises inserting at least two needles of at least one of the plurality of therapy electrodes into the auricle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2973
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15811278', '15595185', '14277158', '15160468', '15707439']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7337412934636367
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.595828457171946
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7199500098344677
- Mean Citation Score: 428.4689460000001
- Max Citation Score: 582.2945599999998
- Similarity Product: 452.3529519209479

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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