PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865462
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["607", "059000"]

Abstract:
An electrical stimulation is applied to a patient via a lead by increasing a stimulation parameter over time. An anal sphincter response, a bellows response, and a toes response from the patient are detected as a result of the electrical stimulation. A first value of the stimulation parameter associated with the anal sphincter response, a second value of the stimulation parameter associated with the bellows response, and a third value of the stimulation parameter associated with the toes response are determined. A placement of the lead inside the patient is evaluated based on: a chronological occurrence of the anal sphincter response, the bellows response, and the toes response; a comparison of the first value with a predetermined threshold; a deviation of the second value from the first value; a deviation of the third value from the first value; or a deviation of the third value from the second value.

Claim (Index 17):
A method, comprising:\n delivering, via a lead implanted inside a patient, a electrical stimulation to a sacral nerve or a pudendal nerve of the patient by gradually increasing a value of a stimulation parameter over time; observing an anal sphincter response, a bellows response, and a toes response from the patient as a result of the electrical stimulation; and determining whether the lead has been well-placed inside the patient based on an observed timing of the anal sphincter response, the bellows response, and the toes response.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.15385
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15043954', '15229003', '14537235', '14536863', '15356772']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7305250946758055
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5861779045018606
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7160903756584109
- Mean Citation Score: 411.322764
- Max Citation Score: 526.7624
- Similarity Product: 433.6235796271324

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

Dataset: test