PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16430330
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["607", "017000"]

Abstract:
A method, system and device for monitoring and treating conditions of a mammalian heart, among which may include bradyarrhythmias, tachyarrhythmias and heart failure, the device being configured as a pacemaker that harvests energy as it implements the pacemaker functions to treat and monitor conditions of the heart. The pacemaker has a case, electrical circuitry sealed within the case, an electrode that is electrically coupled to the electrical circuitry, and embodiments may include a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) for harvesting and converting the kinematic energy of the heart into electrical energy. Embodiments provide receivers at locations of the heart which sense heart activity and are controlled with pacing circuitry to deliver electrical impulses at locations and time intervals to replicate the contractions of a normal functioning heart. Further embodiments provide a multi-part pacemaker where case-connectable electrode part may be implanted separately from the case part.

Claim (Index 28):
A method for treating one or more conditions of a mammalian heart, comprising:\n a) configuring a pacemaker to deliver electrical impulses to a heart; b) implanting the pacemaker at a location to deliver electrical impulses to the heart, said pacemaker having pacing circuitry; c) implanting a plurality of receivers at a respective plurality of locations on the heart to be monitored and regulated via the delivery of electrical impulses to those respective plurality of locations; d) monitoring the heart activity at the respective locations via said receivers; e) communicating activity signals from said receivers to said pacing circuitry, wherein said activity signals correspond to the heart activity monitored at said respective locations; f) monitoring the respective activity signals communicated from each said receiver that corresponds to the heart activity at the said respective receiver location; g) processing with said pacemaker pacing circuitry, said activity signals communicated from each said receiver, h) communicating an actuation signal from said pacemaker to one or more of the said receivers of the said plurality of receivers, and i) delivering an electrical impulse at one or more respective locations of the heart where the said respective receiver is located.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83529
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11535857', '12555389', '15226056', '13688978', '13957499']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6666255089111242
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4947375587386404
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6494367138938758
- Mean Citation Score: 290.23324599999995
- Max Citation Score: 297.3314200000001
- Similarity Product: 255.9063688861812

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

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