PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135863
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["601", "004000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for generating an acoustic energy pulse and delivering it into a body is described. The apparatus includes a generator for creating an acoustic energy pulse having an energy density field that can be measured at all points within a space in the shape of an imaginary cylinder having a length greater than or equal to 2 cm and a diameter. The cylindrically shaped space has a cylinder longitudinal axis oriented relative to a longitudinal axis of the energy pulse at an angle in the range from zero to twenty degrees. A minimum energy density for the pulse at all locations within the cylindrically shaped space is at least  50 % of a maximum energy density for the pulse within the space.

Claim (Index 50):
An apparatus for generating acoustic energy pulses for delivery into a living body, said apparatus comprising\n a housing comprising an opening and a longitudinal axis, wherein said longitudinal axis extends through said opening; an acoustic energy pulse generator wherein at least a portion of said acoustic energy pulse generator is contained within said housing; and a contact portion configured to be placed in contact with or adjacent to the living body, and positioned such that an acoustic energy pulse generated by said acoustic energy pulse generator passes through said contact portion; wherein said acoustic energy pulse generator is configured to generate and deliver the acoustic energy pulse along a urethra of the living body in a direction along a length of the urethra, said acoustic energy pulse having an energy density field that is dimensioned to therapeutically encompass urethral sphincter muscles of the patient; and wherein a first volume of said energy density field having a minimum energy density that is at least 50% of a maximum energy density of said first volume is configured to encompass a second volume of at least thirty percent of the urethral sphincter muscles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 103.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86765
- Patent Class: 601.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15067342', '10463976', '10866052', '13449733', '10827887']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6458544852877263
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5004387027669001
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6313129070356437
- Mean Citation Score: 178.61528600000003
- Max Citation Score: 229.50502000000003
- Similarity Product: 138.9384190042496

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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