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 33):
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, the plurality of needles being attached to a base and arranged in a group of bipolar pairs, 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 induce a pattern of fractional damage by the RF energy in the subcutaneous fat layer when the needles are inserted therein, wherein the pattern of fractional damage includes thermally-damaged regions between tips of needles of the bipolar pairs, and undamaged regions between bipolar pairs of needles in the group.

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): 0.8357732824386348
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.550376783981308
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8072336325929022
- Mean Citation Score: 375.193688
- Max Citation Score: 433.59036
- Similarity Product: 404.41238131739607

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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