PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16148756
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["606", "041000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for non-thermal ablation of tissue are provided. A non-implantable minimally invasive system for treatment of tissue in a body via direct current ablation is provided including a catheter, a plurality of electrodes for deployment through the catheter, a power source for applying power to the electrodes, and a fixation element for maintaining the catheter in a treatment position during treatment of the tissue. A minimally invasive method for treating tissue in a body via direct current ablation is provided including inserting a catheter into the body such that a portion of the catheter remains outside of the body, deploying a fixation element to fix the catheter in a treatment position, deploying a plurality of electrodes through the catheter, applying power to the plurality of electrodes, using the electrodes to apply a current to the tissue, and removing the catheter from the body.

Claim (Index 1):
A non-implantable minimally invasive system for treatment of issue in a body via direct current ablation comprising:\n a catheter for insertion into the body wherein a portion of the catheter remains outside of the body when the catheter is in a treatment position proximate the tissue to be treated; between 2 and 12 electrodes positioned for deployment through and outwardly from the catheter, wherein an active area of at least one electrode delivers a charge to impart a high pH or a low pH such that a necrotic zone is created to form a field of treatment; a power source for receiving treatment parameters and applying direct current and power to the plurality of electrodes based on the treatment parameters, wherein the direct current is applied at a magnitude of between approximately 10 and 50 mA per electrode and the power is applied at between approximately 20 and 3200 mW of power per electrode to deliver between 15 and 90 coulombs of charge per electrode, a fixation element operably associated with the catheter for maintaining the catheter in a treatment position during treatment; wherein the ablation of tissue using the system is substantially non-thermal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 155.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78571
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12544134', '15455358', '14969889', '12544112', '15354507']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7920553975521254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5464198332202326
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7674918411189362
- Mean Citation Score: 396.0228
- Max Citation Score: 446.1843
- Similarity Product: 388.0995485605002

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

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