PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885652
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["606", "013000"]

Abstract:
Devices and methods that regulate the innervation of the kidney by detection and modification of the aorticorenal ganglion. Devices for percutaneous detection and treatment of the aorticorenal ganglion via a blood vessel to modify renal sympathetic activity.

Claim (Index 10):
A treatment system comprising:\n a catheter to be inserted into positioned in a location in a patient at or near which an aorticorenal ganglion is thought to exist, the catheter comprising: a plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation element elements; a sensing element; and, an a plurality of aorticorenal ganglion modifying element ablating elements, each co-located with a corresponding one of the plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation elements; and a control box in electronic communication with said catheter, said control box to:\n activate a first of said plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation element elements in a pattern determined by software executed by said control box when said catheter is inserted into positioned in said location in said patient, without resulting in a permanent change to tissue of the aorticorenal ganglion and/or a permanent change to kidney nerve activity; \n detect, with said sensing element, a first physiological response of said patient to said activation of said first of said plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation elements of said catheter at said location in said patient; \n determine, based on a communication with said sensing element responsive to said detection of said first physiological response activation of said stimulation element, said first of said plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation elements of said catheter is not proximate an the aorticorenal ganglion in said patient when said first of said plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation elements of said catheter is activated;\n activate a second of said plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation elements in a pattern determined by software executed by said control box when said catheter is positioned in said location in said patient, without resulting in a permanent change to tissue of the aorticorenal ganglion and/or a permanent change to kidney nerve activity; \n detect, with said sensing element, a second physiological response of said patient to said activation of said second of said plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation elements of said catheter at said second location of said patient; \n determine, based on a communication with said sensing element responsive to said detection of said second physiological response, said second of said plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation elements of said catheter is proximate the aorticorenal ganglion when said second of said plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation elements of said catheter is activated; and\n activate a second of said plurality of aorticorenal ganglion ablating elements corresponding to said second of said plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation elements, said second of said plurality of aorticorenal ganglion modifying element ablating elements to modify permanently change tissue of said aorticorenal ganglion in response to said determination that said first of said plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation elements of said catheter is not proximate the aorticorenal ganglion when said first of said plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation elements of said catheter is activated and further in response to said determination that said second of said plurality of spaced apart electrical stimulation elements of said catheter is proximate to said aorticorenal ganglion, resulting in a permanent change to tissue of the aorticorenal ganglion and/or a permanent change of kidney nerve activity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.44444
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14269001', '15195998', '14691553', '14241061', '14247244']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7588412271342373
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6076027188191747
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.743717376302731
- Mean Citation Score: 340.862094
- Max Citation Score: 563.12146
- Similarity Product: 547.5336316331528

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

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