PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16306020
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["340", "575000"]

Abstract:
A system configured to determine sleep need dissipation without monitoring brain activity during a sleep session. The system comprises a sensory stimulator configured to provide repetitive visual stimulation (RVS); a sensor configured to generate output signals conveying information related to brain activity; and one or more hardware processors configured to: before the sleep session, cause the one or more sensory stimulators to provide first RVS, and determine a first steady state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) response based on the output signals during the first RVS; and after the sleep session, cause the one or more sensory stimulators to provide second RVS, determine a second SSVEP response based on the output signals during the second RVS; compare the second SSVEP response to the first SSVEP response, and determine the sleep need dissipation for the sleep session based on the comparison.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for determining sleep need dissipation in a subject without monitoring brain activity during a sleep session, the method performed by a determination system comprising one or more sensory stimulators, one or more sensors, and one or more hardware processors, the method comprising:\n before the sleep session, with the one or more hardware processors, (i) causing the one or more sensory stimulators to provide first repetitive visual stimulation (RVS), and (ii) determining a first steady state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) response of the subject based on output signals conveying information related to brain activity in the subject from the one or more sensors during the first RVS; and after the sleep session, with the one or more hardware processors, (iii) causing the one or more sensory stimulators to provide second RVS, (iv) determining a second SSVEP response of the subject based on the output signals during the second RVS; (v) comparing the second SSVEP response to the first SSVEP response, and (vi) determining the sleep need dissipation for the sleep session based on the comparison, wherein determining the sleep need dissipation for the sleep session based on the comparison comprises correlating a difference between the second SSVEP response and the first SSVEP response to a level of slow wave activity (SWA) in the subject during the sleep session, the level of SWA being indicative of the sleep need dissipation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15531027', '14784782', '15113104', '15100435', '15533558']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6691260569376856
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5233377493244276
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6545472261763597
- Mean Citation Score: 286.379646
- Max Citation Score: 307.87543
- Similarity Product: 254.7272578298181

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