PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885553
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["607", "057000"]

Abstract:
A stapedius reflex threshold determination system is communicatively coupled with a loudspeaker and a cochlear implant implanted within a patient. The system identifies a baseline evoked response level associated with a baseline acoustic stimulation level too low to trigger a stapedius reflex within the patient. The system directs an electro-acoustic stimulation event to be applied to the patient, including electrical stimulation applied by the cochlear implant at a particular electrical stimulation level and acoustic stimulation applied by the loudspeaker at the baseline acoustic stimulation level. The system determines an evoked response level associated with the applied acoustic stimulation and detects that the stapedius reflex is triggered by determining that the evoked response level is at least a predetermined threshold amount lower than the baseline evoked response level. In response to this detection, the system may determine a stapedius reflex threshold of the patient based on the particular electrical stimulation level.

Claim (Index 13):
A sound processor communicatively coupled with a loudspeaker associated with a patient having residual hearing and with a cochlear implant implanted within the patient, the sound processor comprising:\n at least one physical computing component that\n identifies a baseline evoked response level of a baseline evoked response that occurs within the patient in response to acoustic stimulation being applied by the loudspeaker to the patient at a baseline acoustic stimulation level too low to trigger a stapedius reflex within the patient, \n directs the cochlear implant and the loudspeaker to apply an electro-acoustic stimulation event to the patient, the electro-acoustic stimulation event including electrical stimulation and acoustic stimulation applied in accordance with a predetermined timing relationship between the electrical stimulation and the acoustic stimulation, the electrical stimulation applied by the cochlear implant at a particular electrical stimulation level and the acoustic stimulation applied by the loudspeaker at the baseline acoustic stimulation level, \n determines an evoked response level of an evoked response that occurs within the patient in response to the acoustic stimulation applied to the patient as part of the electro-acoustic stimulation event, and \n detects that the stapedius reflex within the patient is triggered by determining that the evoked response level of the evoked response is at least a predetermined threshold amount lower than the baseline evoked response level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49206
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14357903', '14386330', '15222935', '11779265', '14386331']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7040922019203812
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5238680241857909
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6860697841469222
- Mean Citation Score: 350.173374
- Max Citation Score: 372.6097
- Similarity Product: 294.1337372695565

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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