PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868861
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["607", "046000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for producing asynchronous neural responses to treat pain and/or other patient conditions are disclosed. A method in accordance with a particular embodiment includes selecting a target stimulation frequency that is above a threshold frequency, with the threshold frequency corresponding to a refractory period for neurons of a target sensory neural population. The method can further include producing a patient sensation of paresthesia by directing an electrical signal to multiple sensory neurons of the target sensory neural population at the stimulation frequency, with individual neurons of the sensory neural population completing corresponding individual refractory periods at different times, resulting in an asynchronous sensory neuron response to the electrical signal.

Claim (Index 94):
A system for applying neural stimulation to a patient, the system comprising:\n an implantable pulse generator configured to generate an electrical stimulation signal having at least a first parameter value; an electrode array having one or more electrodes coupleable to the pulse generator; and a sensor coupleable to the pulse generator, wherein the pulse generator includes a machine-readable medium having instructions that, when executed, cause the pulse generator to\u2014\n deliver the electrical stimulation signal to a neural population of the patient via the one or more electrodes; \n sense, via the sensor, a neural response generated by the neural population in response to the electrical stimulation signal; \n determine a feedback value based on the sensed neural response from the neural population; and \n based on the determined feedback value, automatically adjust the first parameter value of the electrical stimulation signal to a second parameter value different than the first parameter value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14483061', '13857960', '12362244', '15192914', '13544727']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6294839877913059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4685014775850517
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6133857367706804
- Mean Citation Score: 223.990534
- Max Citation Score: 242.14163
- Similarity Product: 220.96264301782608

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

Dataset: test