PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16231581
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["607", "045000"]

Abstract:
A method of inhibiting the release of a proinflammatory cytokine in a cell is disclosed. The method comprises treating the cell with a cholinergic agonist. The method is useful in patients at risk for, or suffering from, a condition mediated by an inflammatory cytokine cascade, for example endotoxic shock. The cholinergic agonist treatment can be effected by stimulation of an efferent vagus nerve fiber, or the entire vagus nerve.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein electrically stimulating the patient's vagus nerve comprises stimulating for less than about 20 min.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60417
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10990938', '15616855', '14569504', '10446625', '10729427']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8283850348366455
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.7460847203313816
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8201550033861191
- Mean Citation Score: 671.885124
- Max Citation Score: 735.4096
- Similarity Product: 724.3634753509522

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