PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15898889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["607", "114000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for applying electrical stimulation to a body by an electrode spaced from a target nerve of passage. It has been discovered that pain felt, or perceived to be felt, in a given region of the body can be treated by stimulating muscle close to a “nerve of passage” in a region that is superior (i.e., cranial or upstream toward the spinal column) to the region where pain is felt, such as in a case of post-amputation residual limb pain, or purportedly felt in the case of post-amputation phantom limb pain.

Claim (Index 36):
A method of reducing a perception of pain, the method comprising the steps of:\n placing or instructing placement of an electrode at a therapeutically effective distance from a neural fiber bundle within tissue, wherein the neural fiber bundle comprises more than one type of nerve fiber; delivering or instructing delivery of electrical stimulation from the electrode to the neural fiber bundle to reduce a perception of pain by said human, wherein a first of the type of nerve fiber is selectively activated while minimizing recruitment of activation of a second of the type of nerve fiber because the electrode is at the therapeutically effective distance; and evoking or instructing evocation of paresthesia in a region of pain, wherein the region of pain is spaced from the electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68254
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13605653', '15888338', '13294875', '12653023', '13791710']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7337223567175015
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6445259156028817
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7248027126060396
- Mean Citation Score: 474.7371279999999
- Max Citation Score: 667.5424
- Similarity Product: 601.9307938926697

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