PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200770
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["703", "013000"]

Abstract:
Improved computer-implemented tools for use in modeling/simulating spatial charge distributions for electrophysiological systems are provided. The improvements are in three areas: (1) the use of solid angles to calculate quantities of free charge and/or bound charge in calculation cells and/or the movement of quantities of free charge across one or more faces of a calculation cell; (2) the use of flattened calculations cells having only two faces with substantial areas as seen from the free charge and/or the bound charge of the electrophysiological system; and (3) the use of at least two spatial charge distributions, specifically, at least one for bound charge and at least one for free charge, so as to include the effects of relative dielectric constants greater than 1.0 for part or all of an electrophysiological system. The three improvements can be used individually or in combinations.

Claim (Index 1):
A computer-implemented process for computing and displaying a spatial distribution, a time series, or a spatial distribution and a time series of at least one electrical variable for at least a portion of an electrophysiological system, said method comprising:\n (I) modeling said at least a portion of an electrophysiological system by a method that comprises: (A) inputting data to a computer regarding structure and at least one electrical property of said at least a portion of an electrophysiological system; (B) simulating, using the computer, at least one spatial charge distribution for said at least a portion of an electrophysiological system without first determining and differentiating an electrical potential distribution, wherein simulating comprises determining quantities of charge in a plurality of calculation cells, each of said plurality of calculation cells having at least two faces; (II) using the computer to determine the spatial distribution, the time series, or the spatial distribution and the time series of the electrical variable from the at least one spatial charge distribution simulated in step (I); and (III) displaying the spatial distribution, the time series, or the spatial distribution and the time series of the electrical variable determined in step (II); wherein for at least one of said plurality of calculation cells, a quantity of charge for the calculation cell is determined in step (I)(B), at least in part, using a solid angle of a face of the calculation cell as seen from a quantity of charge in at least one other calculation cell of said plurality of calculation cells.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96203
- Patent Class: 703.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15097379', '13467615', '12403389', '14257069', '12567450']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2408552402456617
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6360741447562227
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2803771306967179
- Mean Citation Score: 290.118154
- Max Citation Score: 580.7856400000003
- Similarity Product: 575.5073679867318

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

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