PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["623", "006630"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a retinal prosthetic method and device that mimics the responses of the retina to a broad range of stimuli, including natural stimuli. Ganglion cell firing patterns are generated in response to a stimulus using a set of encoders, interfaces, and transducers, where each transducer targets a single cell or a small number of cells. The conversion occurs on the same time scale as that carried out by the normal retina. In addition, aspects of the invention may be used with robotic or other mechanical devices, where processing of visual information is required. The encoders may be adjusted over time with aging or the progression of a disease.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for restoring or improving vision, comprising\n receiving a stimulus, transforming the stimulus into a set of codes with a set of encoders, transforming the codes into signals with an interface, activating a plurality of retinal cells with a high resolution transducer driven by the signals from the interface, wherein activating the plurality of retinal cells results in retinal ganglion cell responses, to a broad range of stimuli, that are substantially similar to the responses of retinal ganglion cells from a normal retina to the same stimuli.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55128
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13595812', '14981242', '13821187', '14239828', '15408178']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8173826837750013
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.612293203121131
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7968737357096144
- Mean Citation Score: 532.7705900000002
- Max Citation Score: 673.8813
- Similarity Product: 527.0528218931437

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

Dataset: test