PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885652
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["606", "013000"]

Abstract:
Devices and methods that regulate the innervation of the kidney by detection and modification of the aorticorenal ganglion. Devices for percutaneous detection and treatment of the aorticorenal ganglion via a blood vessel to modify renal sympathetic activity.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of ablating an aorticorenal ganglion located in an abdominal region of a human, wherein the aorticorenal ganglion is coupled to but separate from a renal plexus, the method comprising:\n inserting an apparatus into a location in a body lumen located in the abdominal region of the human near which the aorticorenal ganglion is thought to exist, the apparatus comprising a plurality of electrical stimulation element, elements, a corresponding plurality of aorticorenal ganglion ablation elements, and an aorticorenal ganglion detection element, and an aorticorenal ganglion ablation element; activating a first of the plurality of the electrical stimulation element elements after the apparatus is inserted into the location in the body lumen, the activated first of the plurality of electrical stimulation elements to stimulate the aorticorenal ganglion when the aorticorenal ganglion is near the first of the plurality of electrical stimulation elements, without resulting in a permanent change to tissue of the aorticorenal ganglion and/or a permanent change to kidney nerve activity; activating the aorticorenal ganglion detection element to detect a first physiological change in the human in response to activation of the first of the plurality of electrical stimulation element elements, the first physiological change indicating the aorticorenal ganglion is not near the first of the plurality of electrical stimulation elements located adjacent the body lumen; activating a second of the plurality of electrical stimulation elements after the apparatus is inserted into the location in the body lumen, the activated second of the plurality of electrical stimulation elements to stimulate the aorticorenal ganglion when the aorticorenal ganglion is near the second of the plurality of electrical stimulation elements, without resulting in a permanent change to tissue of the aorticorenal ganglion and/or a permanent change to kidney nerve activity; activating the aorticorenal ganglion detection element to detect a second physiological change in the human in response to activation of the second of the plurality of electrical stimulation elements, the second physiological change indicating the aorticorenal ganglion is near the second of the plurality of electrical stimulation elements; and activating a corresponding second of the plurality of the aorticorenal ganglion ablation element elements while the apparatus remains at the location in the body lumen to ablate the aorticorenal ganglion, responsive to the aorticorenal ganglion detection element detecting the first physiological change and the second physiological change in the human, resulting in the permanent change to tissue of the aorticorenal ganglion and/or a permanent change to kidney nerve activity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.44444
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14269001', '15195998', '14691553', '14241061', '14247244']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7604716799301169
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6021398761978233
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7446384995568875
- Mean Citation Score: 340.862094
- Max Citation Score: 563.12146
- Similarity Product: 525.8721783245169

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

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