PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15922863
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["607", "017000"]

Abstract:
A method for managing bradycardia through vagus nerve stimulation is provided. An implantable neurostimulator configured to deliver electrical therapeutic stimulation in both afferent and efferent directions of a patient's cervical vagus nerve is provided. An operating mode is stored, which includes parametrically defining a maintenance dose of the electrical therapeutic stimulation tuned to restore cardiac autonomic balance through continuously-cycling, intermittent and periodic electrical pulses. The maintenance dose is delivered via a pulse generator through a pair of helical electrodes via an electrically coupled nerve stimulation therapy lead independent of cardiac cycle. The patient's physiology is monitored, and upon sensing a condition indicative of bradycardia, the delivery of the maintenance dose is suspended. A progressively increasing amount of time is spent waiting via a controller and, upon sensing a condition indicative of an absence or termination of the bradycardia, a progressively increasing partial maintenance dose is delivered via the pulse generator.

Claim (Index 4):
A method according to  claim 1 , further comprising the steps of:\n upon sensing a condition indicative of a recurrence of the bradycardia, re-suspending the delivery of the dose to the vagus nerve, comprising:\n increasing the delay over a delay most recently used during suspension of the delivery of the dose to the vagus nerve; and \n upon expiry of the increased delay, checking the patient's physiology via the physiological sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92941
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13554656', '13673766', '15274919', '15706946', '13828486']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.737074755564345
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5786559812315571
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7212328781310662
- Mean Citation Score: 536.520622
- Max Citation Score: 592.7178299999998
- Similarity Product: 407.9275569719229

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

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