PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16048197
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["607", "046000"]

Abstract:
Selective high-frequency spinal cord modulation for inhibiting pain with reduced side effects and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In particular embodiments, high-frequency modulation in the range of from about 1.5 KHz to about 50 KHz may be applied to the patient's spinal cord region to address low back pain without creating unwanted sensory and/or motor side effects. In other embodiments, modulation in accordance with similar parameters can be applied to other spinal or peripheral locations to address other indications.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for treating a patient, comprising:\n implanting a signal generator in the patient; implanting a signal delivery device in a spinal cord region of the patient, with active contacts of the signal delivery device at a vertebral level of from about T9 to about T12; and activating the signal generator to apply an electrical signal to the patient via the signal delivery device at a frequency of from about 3 kHz to about 15 kHz to inhibit or eliminate chronic, low back pain in the patient, without the electrical signal (a) disrupting other sensory signals along the spinal cord, (b) disrupting motor signals along the spinal cord, and (c) generating a paresthetic sensation in the patient.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.50877
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13398693', '13447026', '14525178', '13446970', '13245450']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6510969464627617
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4703955580159361
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6330268076180792
- Mean Citation Score: 218.669998
- Max Citation Score: 218.71178
- Similarity Product: 177.47951511678696

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

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