PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16050546
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["607", "059000"]

Abstract:
A method, programmer for a neurostimulator, and neurostimulation kit are provided. The kit comprises a neurostimulator, and a plurality of elongated lead bodies configured for being coupled to the neurostimulator, each having a plurality of proximal contacts and a plurality of distal electrodes respectively electrically coupled to the proximal contacts, wherein an in-line connectivity between the electrodes and proximal contacts carried by the different lead bodies differs from each other. Electrical energy is conveyed between the electrodes of the selected lead body and the tissue, an electrical fingerprint is measured at the proximal contacts of the selected lead body in response to the conveyed electrical energy, and the selected lead body is identified based on the measured electrical fingerprint. These steps can be performed by the programmer.

Claim (Index 17):
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions, which when executed by a system, cause the system to perform a method for programming an implantable stimulator connected to one or more lead bodies each including proximal contacts and distal electrodes electrically coupled to the proximal contacts, the implantable stimulator having output circuitry configured for delivering electrical stimulation pulses to tissue through the distal electrodes of the one or more lead bodies, the method comprising:\n receiving one or more electrical fingerprints from the implantable stimulator, the one or more electrical fingerprints each determined by the implantable stimulator for a lead body of the one or more lead bodies and each corresponding to electrical field potentials each determined for one of the proximal contacts of that lead body; automatically identifying each lead body of the one or more lead bodies based on the received one or more electrical fingerprints; and programming the implantable stimulator based on the identified one or more lead bodies, including mapping outputs of the output circuitry to the distal electrodes of the one or more lead bodies.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12308
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15674769', '12941657', '12606024', '13745826', '12623976']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6839829735221354
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5704120747508614
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6726258836450081
- Mean Citation Score: 362.242484
- Max Citation Score: 502.3188
- Similarity Product: 402.4572399411678

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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