PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896991
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["607", "059000"]

Abstract:
Timing channel circuitry for controlling stimulation circuitry in an implantable stimulator is disclosed. The timing channel circuitry comprises a addressable memory. Data for the various phases of a desired pulse are stored in the memory using different numbers of words, including a command indicative of the number of words in the phase, a next address for the next phase stored in the memory, and a pulse width or duration of the current phase, control data for the stimulation circuitry, pulse amplitude, and electrode data. The command data is used to address through the words in the current phase via the address bus, which words are sent to a control register for the stimulation circuitry. After the duration of the pulse width for the current phase has passed, the stored next address is used to access the data for the next phase stored in the memory.

Claim (Index 1):
An implantable stimulator device, comprising:\n a plurality of electrodes configured to provide stimulation to a patient's tissue; a memory configured to store pulse parameters for a periodic pulse, wherein each pulse comprises a plurality of sequential pulse phases, wherein at least one pulse phase with a first duration comprises a plurality of sequential sub-phases, wherein the at least one pulse phase has an amplitude that is not constant, wherein data stored in the memory for each sub-phase of the at least one pulse phase comprises at least an amplitude of the sub-phase and a second duration of the sub-phase less than the first duration, wherein the amplitudes of the sub-phases are not all equal; stimulation circuitry electrically coupled to the plurality of electrodes; and control circuitry configured to sequentially receive the second duration for each sequential sub-phase from the memory, wherein the control circuitry is configured to sequentially provide the amplitude for each sequential sub-phase to the stimulation circuitry in accordance with the second durations to allow the stimulation circuitry to form the non-constant amplitude pulse phase at at least one of the plurality of electrodes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59016
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14858554', '15289809', '13847676', '14636380', '15696031']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.716510056245295
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5453737698624898
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6993964276070144
- Mean Citation Score: 404.620282
- Max Citation Score: 438.22583
- Similarity Product: 345.9648213057601

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

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