PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15984926
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["607", "040000"]

Abstract:
Various methods and apparatus for treating a condition associated with impaired glucose regulation in a subject comprising in one embodiment, applying a neural conduction block to a target nerve at a blocking site with the neural conduction block selected to at least partially block nerve pulses. In another embodiment, combinations of down-regulating and or up-regulating with or without pharmaceutical agents are used to treat impaired glucose regulation. In other embodiments, up-regulation or down-regulation of various nerves, such as the vagus and its branches, and the splanchnic is used to modify the production of GLP-1 and GIP, thereby controlling glucose levels. In yet further embodiments, combinations of down-regulating and or up-regulating with or without pharmaceutical agents are used to modify the production of GLP-1 and GIP, to treat impaired glucose regulation.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of modifying the amount of GIP or both GIP and GLP1,\n comprising: applying a first intermittent electrical signal to a target nerve with said electrical signal selected to upregulate or down-regulate neural afferent and efferent neural activity on the vagus nerve and to restore neural activity on the nerve upon discontinuance of said signal, and has a frequency of 500 Hz to 5000 Hz, wherein the first electrical signal is applied in a cycle including an on time of application of the signal followed by an off time during which the signal is not applied to the nerve, and wherein the electrical signal is selected to increase the amount of GIP or both GIP and GLP1.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02857
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13681581', '12417918', '15098704', '14814094', '12537019']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.67284303078185
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5483182250495359
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6603905502086186
- Mean Citation Score: 352.33995000000016
- Max Citation Score: 420.82147
- Similarity Product: 395.26391178075727

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

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