PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16100904
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["607", "046000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for testing and treating spinal cord stimulation (SCS) patients are disclosed. Patients are eventually treated with sub-perception (paresthesia free) therapy. However, supra-perception stimulation is used during “sweet spot searching” during which active electrodes are selected for the patient. This allows sweet spot searching to occur much more quickly and without the need to wash in the various electrode combinations that are tried. After selecting electrodes using supra-perception therapy, therapy is titrated to sub-perception levels using the selected electrodes. Such sub-perception therapy has been investigated using pulses at or below 10 kHz, and it has been determined that a statistically significant correlation exists between pulse width (PW) and frequency (F) in this frequency range at which SCS patients experience significant reduction in symptoms such as back pain. Beneficially, sub-perception stimulation at such low frequencies significantly lowers power consumption in the patient's neurostimulator.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 7 , wherein the therapeutic pulses comprise symmetric biphasic pulses, wherein a duration of the first phase is equal to a duration of the second phase, and wherein an amplitude of the first phase is equal but of opposite polarity to an amplitude of the second phase.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 69.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61165
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15428612', '10307098', '15481237', '14316538', '14679993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7161072045502358
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5174218683622421
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6962386709314364
- Mean Citation Score: 294.339398
- Max Citation Score: 299.1492
- Similarity Product: 159.06815424985885

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

Dataset: test