PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983024
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["607", "046000"]

Abstract:
A peripheral nerve stimulator can be used to stimulate a peripheral nerve to treat essential tremor, Parkinson tremor, and other forms of tremor. The peripheral nerve stimulator can be either a noninvasive surface stimulator or an implanted stimulator. Stimulation can be electrical, mechanical, or chemical. Stimulation can be delivered using either an open loop system or a closed loop system with feedback.

Claim (Index 20):
A wearable device for treating tremor in a patient, the device comprising:\n a control unit; a first peripheral nerve effector, comprising at least one transcutaneous stimulation electrode configured to be positioned to modulate an afferent nerve pathway; and at least one sensor configured to measure movement of the patient's extremity to characterize one or more features of the tremor, the one or more features of the tremor selected from the group consisting of tremor frequency, tremor period, and tremor magnitude; wherein the control unit comprises a processor and a memory for storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the device to: measure the movement of the patient's extremity to generate motion data; determine one or more of a tremor frequency, period and magnitude based on an analysis of the motion data; set one or more parameters of a first electrical stimulus based on one or more of the tremor frequency, period or magnitude; deliver the first electrical stimulus to a first afferent nerve through the first peripheral nerve effector to reduce tremor in the patient's extremity; and deliver a second electrical stimulus offset in time from the first electrical stimulus by a predetermined fraction or multiple of a period of the tremor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79487
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14805385', '15354943', '15721480', '15721475', '15762043']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6679442312755549
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5840400215159538
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6595538102995948
- Mean Citation Score: 332.10113
- Max Citation Score: 500.92062
- Similarity Product: 478.3045706081414

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

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