PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16194968
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["607", "066000"]

Abstract:
Methods and devices are provided for activating brown adipose tissue (BAT). Generally, the methods and devices can activate BAT to increase thermogenesis, e.g., increase heat production in the patient, which over time can lead to weight loss. In one embodiment, a medical device is provided that activates BAT by electrically stimulating nerves that activate the BAT and/or electrically stimulating brown adipocytes directly, thereby increasing thermogenesis in the BAT and inducing weight loss through energy expenditure.

Claim (Index 1):
A medical method, comprising:\n positioning a device in contact with tissue of a patient proximate to a first depot of brown adipose tissue; activating the device to deliver a first electrical signal to the patient to activate the first depot and increase energy expenditure of the first depot; delivering the first electrical signal to the patient until a first threshold event occurs; when the first threshold event occurs, stopping delivery of the first electrical signal to the patient; delivering a second electrical signal to the patient to activate a second depot of brown adipose tissue and increase energy expenditure of the second depot; delivering the second electrical signal to the patient until a second threshold event occurs; and when the second threshold event occurs, stopping delivery of the second electrical signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53571
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15585706', '12980659', '14700611', '13977536', '14584066']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7260244661330203
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5703568627075467
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7104577057904728
- Mean Citation Score: 464.27429000000006
- Max Citation Score: 515.9565
- Similarity Product: 405.4795709992647

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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