PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16298784
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["607", "002000"]

Abstract:
Electrode structures for transvascular nerve stimulation combine electrodes with an electrically-insulating backing layer. The backing layer increases the electrical impedance of electrical paths through blood in a lumen of a blood vessel and consequently increases the flow of electrical current through surrounding tissues. The electrode structures may be applied to stimulate nerves such as the phrenic, vagus, trigeminal, obturator or other nerves.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of stimulating at least one nerve, the method comprising:\n positioning a first electrode array having two or more first electrodes in a first blood vessel; positioning a second electrode array having two or more second electrodes in a second blood vessel, said first and second electrode arrays arranged to receive stimulation signals from a signal generator outside of a body having the first and second blood vessels; selecting at least one of the first electrodes proximate a right phrenic nerve; selecting at least one of the second electrodes proximate a left phrenic nerve; and stimulating the first electrodes in the first blood vessel and the second electrodes in the second blood vessel, to assist in contracting a diaphragm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38776
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14448734', '15408193', '14497858', '14792006', '12524571']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7690813565335415
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5774198502526456
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7499152059054519
- Mean Citation Score: 505.686244
- Max Citation Score: 509.78577
- Similarity Product: 451.9004428697866

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

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