PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16242983
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["607", "048000"]

Abstract:
A peripheral nerve stimulator can be used to stimulate a peripheral nerve to treat essential tremor, Parkinsonian tremor, and other forms of tremor. The stimulator can have electrodes that are placed circumferentially around the patient's wrist or arm. Specific nerves in the wrist or arm can be targeted by appropriate spacing of the electrodes. Positioning the electrodes on generally opposing sides of the target nerve can result in improved stimulation of the nerve. The stimulation pattern may alternate between the nerves. Improved stimulation algorithms can incorporate tremor feedback, external data, predictive adaptation, and long-term monitoring data.

Claim (Index 31):
An external system for treating a patient suffering from tremor, the system comprising:\n a pulse generator; and a circumferential band adapted to be secured to the patient's arm or wrist, the band supporting a first and a second electrode in electrical communication with the pulse generator, the first and second electrodes being spaced on the band and configured to deliver electrical stimuli from the pulse generator to the patient to preferentially excite a first nerve selected from the patient's median, radial or ulnar nerve, the first and second electrodes being arranged and configured such that in a transverse cross-sectional plane of the arm or wrist there is a 90 degree to 180 degree angle between a line connecting the first nerve and the first electrode and a line connecting the first nerve and the second electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6875
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15354943', '15721475', '15721480', '14805385', '15983024']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6900389910264094
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5126058476135813
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6722956766851266
- Mean Citation Score: 321.597166
- Max Citation Score: 347.35565
- Similarity Product: 325.8678481595725

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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