PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950774
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["607", "042000"]

Abstract:
An implantable system, and methodology, for improving a heart's hemodynamic performance featuring (a) bimodal electrodes placeable on the diaphragm, out of contact with the heart, possessing one mode for sensing cardiac electrical activity, and another for applying cardiac-cycle-synchronized, asymptomatic electrical stimulation to the diaphragm to trigger biphasic, diaphragmatic motion, (b) an accelerometer adjacent the electrodes for sensing both heart sounds, and stimulation-induced diaphragmatic motion, and (c) circuit structure, connected both to the electrodes and the accelerometer, operable, in predetermined timed relationships to the presences of valid V-events noted in one of sensed electrical and sensed mechanical, cardiac activity, to deliver diaphragmatic stimulation. The circuit structure includes accelerometer-linked computer structure for enabling selective review, for later operational modifications, of stimulation-produced diaphragmatic motions, and in a modified form, may additionally include timing-adjustment substructure capable of making adjustments in the mentioned timed relationships.

Claim (Index 1):
An implantable medical system for improving hemodynamic performance of a heart through electrical stimulation of a diaphragm, the implantable medical system comprising\n a plurality of electrodes configured to be placed adjacent to or in direct contact with the diaphragm, and to enable the sensing of electrical cardiac activity through the diaphragm and the delivering of electrical stimulation to the diaphragm; a mechanical sensing structure configured to be place adjacent to or in direct contact with the diaphragm, and to enable the sensing of mechanical cardiac activity through the diaphragm and the sensing of motion activity of the diaphragm; and a circuit structure coupled to the plurality of electrodes and the mechanical sensing structure and configured to:\n obtain sensed cardiac activity corresponding to one of sensed electrical cardiac activity and sensed mechanical cardiac activity, \n detect a cardiac event in a cardiac cycle based on the sensed cardiac activity, and \n apply an electrical stimulation to at least one of the plurality of electrodes in a timed relationship relative to the detected cardiac event.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86667
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15612690', '14107976', '15273643', '15288130', '15498316']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7236197808264876
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5858001967001726
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7098378224138561
- Mean Citation Score: 440.145406
- Max Citation Score: 527.8324
- Similarity Product: 464.2238302996159

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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