PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873290
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["607", "040000"]

Abstract:
Methods, devices and systems for improving pelvic floor dysfunction in a patient suffering therefrom by electrically modulating neural tissue in a minimally invasive fashion using an electrical microstimulator are provided. Methods include inserting an electrical microstimulator having a re-deployable fixation member through skin of a patient's leg and advancing the electrical microstimulator through the skin along tissue of a surgical pathway to an area of the patient's leg. A target implant site can be identified that is above deep fascia and below the skin and that is adjacent to a target nerve associated with pelvic floor function. The electrical microstimulator can be anchored to the target implant site via the re-deployable fixation member or re-positioned, if necessary. A therapy electrical signal can be delivered to the target nerve from the target implant site.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 4 , wherein identifying the first implant site as the target implant site comprises detecting a maxima in the evoked electrical signal, the maxima being reached when application of a lowest amplitude of the delivered stimulation signal to the nerve elicits an evoked electrical signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84416
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11606774', '11739982', '10723316', '09929596', '11414615']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6745177729375417
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5113364495841946
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6581996406022069
- Mean Citation Score: 240.691698
- Max Citation Score: 244.89348
- Similarity Product: 147.08667431283476

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

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