PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941139
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "088000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides improved methods and apparatus for skin treatment and tissue remodeling. The apparatus includes an array of needles that penetrate the skin and serve as electrodes to deliver radio frequency current or other electrical or optical energy into the tissue being treated, causing thermal damage in controlled patterns. The damaged regions promote beneficial results such as uniform skin tightening by stimulation of wound healing and collagen growth.

Claim (Index 31):
A skin treatment device, comprising:\n a housing configured to support a plurality of needles arranged for insertion through a dermal layer of skin and into a subcutaneous fat layer of skin, the plurality of needles being attached to a base, the plurality of needles being further configured for application of radio frequency (RF) energy from a RF energy source; and a control module for controlling delivery of the-RF energy from the RF energy source to the plurality of needles to cause a pattern of fractional damage to be produced in the subcutaneous fat layer in a vicinity of the tips of the needles, wherein delivery of the RF energy is controlled to cause a pattern of regions of thermal damage within the subcutaneous fat layer, and wherein at least two adjacent regions of thermal damage have an undamaged region therebetween.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.25424
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14725976', '14458644', '12914201', '11098030', '13621681']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8359983439248065
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5496101403960938
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8073595235719353
- Mean Citation Score: 375.193688
- Max Citation Score: 433.59036
- Similarity Product: 397.40560789190766

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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