PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877320
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["607", "018000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is generally directed to methods, systems, and computer program products for coordinating musculoskeletal and cardiovascular hemodynamics. In some embodiments, a heart pacing signal causes heart contractions to occur with an essentially constant time relationship with respect to rhythmic musculoskeletal activity. In other embodiments, prompts (e.g., audio, graphical, etc.) are provided to a user to assist them in timing of their rhythmic musculoskeletal activity relative to timing of their cardiovascular cycle. In further embodiments, accurately indicating a heart condition during a cardiac stress test is increased.

Claim (Index 17):
A pacemaker system for artificially pacing a patient's heart, comprising:\n a musculoskeletal activity sensor for detecting a musculoskeletal activity cycle of a patient; an implantable electrical lead connectable to a heart of the patient; an implantable pulse generator coupled to the electrical lead and configured with the electrical lead to electrically stimulate the heart in accordance with a pacing signal; and a processor coupled to receive signals from the musculoskeletal activity sensor and to output the pacing signal to the pulse generator, wherein the processor is configured to perform a method comprising:\n accessing signals from the musculoskeletal activity sensor; \n detecting from the signals a recurrent musculoskeletal event of the patient that occurs at substantially a same timing location during each musculoskeletal activity cycle of a rhythmic activity of the patient; \n determining a musculoskeletal activity rate from the recurrent musculoskeletal event; \n determining a target heart rate relative to the musculoskeletal activity rate; \n determining a target timing within a target phase of the musculoskeletal activity cycle that has a consistent timing relationship relative to the recurrent musculoskeletal event; and \n providing the pacing signal to the heart of the patient at the target heart rate and the target timing within the target phase of the musculoskeletal activity cycle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53731
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14216960', '15278617', '13589073', '14553732', '15384268']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7408334238197469
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5899970278056065
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7257497842183329
- Mean Citation Score: 443.5112380000001
- Max Citation Score: 522.4393299999998
- Similarity Product: 512.3371394576226

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

Dataset: test