PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893838
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["607", "062000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to implantable neuromodulation systems and methods, and in particular to systems and methods for sensing blood-based parameter changes triggered by neural stimulation and subsequently optimizing the stimulation parameters based on feedback from the sensed blood-based parameter changes. Particularly, aspects of the present invention are directed to a method that includes delivering neural stimulation to a nerve or artery/nerve plexus based on a first set of stimulation parameters, monitoring a response to the neural stimulation that includes monitoring responses of the nerve or artery/nerve plexus and blood-based parameters of the artery, modifying the first set of the stimulation parameters based on the blood-based parameters to create a second set of stimulation parameters, and delivering the neural stimulation based on the second set of the stimulation parameters.

Claim (Index 1):
A medical device comprising:\n an electronics module comprising: a controller configured to provide a first set of stimulation parameters, and a pulse generator configured to generate neural stimulation based on the first set of stimulation parameters; a lead body including a conductor material connected to the electronics module; one or more stimulation electrodes connected to the conductor material and configured to deliver the neural stimulation generated by the pulse generator to a nerve or artery/nerve plexus; one or more recording electrodes connected to the conductor material and configured to: monitor a response to the neural stimulation that includes electrical impulses traveling through the nerve or artery/nerve plexus, and send information regarding the electrical impulses to the controller via the conductive material; and one or more sensors connected to the conductor material and configured to: monitor the response to the neural stimulation that includes blood-based parameters, and send the blood-based parameters to the controller via the conductive material, wherein the controller is further configured to modify the first set of the stimulation parameters based on the blood-based parameters to create a second set of stimulation parameters, the pulse generator is further configured to generate modified neural stimulation based on the second set of stimulation parameters, and the one or more stimulation electrodes are further configured to deliver the modified neural stimulation to the nerve or artery/nerve plexus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42857
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13789521', '13789509', '14069744', '14075941', '13568887']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6483099265590716
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4896659109833934
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6324455250015037
- Mean Citation Score: 239.647518
- Max Citation Score: 242.48784
- Similarity Product: 170.56464968868255

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

Dataset: test