PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051841
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["607", "005000"]

Abstract:
An extra-cardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is configured to induce a tachyarrhythmia by charging a high voltage capacitor to a voltage amplitude and delivering a series of pulses to a patient's heart by discharging the capacitor via an extra-cardiovascular electrode vector. Delivering the series of pulses includes recharging the high-voltage capacitor during an inter-pulse interval between consecutive pulses of the series of pulses.

Claim (Index 1):
An extra-cardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) comprising:\n a sensing module for acquiring a cardiac electrical signal; a high voltage therapy module comprising a high voltage charging circuit, a high voltage capacitor, and switching circuitry configured to couple the high voltage capacitor to a plurality of implantable extra-cardiovascular electrodes; and a control module configured to: control the high voltage therapy module to induce a tachyarrhythmia by controlling the high voltage therapy module to:\n charge the high voltage capacitor to a first voltage amplitude; \n deliver a first series of pulses having a first inter-pulse interval between consecutive pulses to a patient's heart by enabling the switching circuitry to discharge the high voltage capacitor via an extra-cardiovascular electrode vector of the plurality of implantable extra-cardiovascular electrodes; \n recharge the high voltage capacitor during the first inter-pulse interval between consecutive pulses of the first series of pulses; \n determine from the cardiac electrical signal if tachyarrhythmia is induced after the first series of pulses; in response to determining that tachyarrhythmia is induced, control the high voltage therapy module to charge the high voltage capacitor to a second voltage amplitude greater than the first voltage amplitude, the second voltage amplitude corresponding to a therapeutic shock energy; and discharge the high voltage capacitor to deliver the therapeutic shock energy to the patient's heart.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54545
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15367448', '15367516', '15367777', '15677204', '15368197']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6764431903286579
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.634512212342925
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6722500925300846
- Mean Citation Score: 447.245302
- Max Citation Score: 588.871
- Similarity Product: 584.7043446735144

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

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