PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16194968
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["607", "066000"]

Abstract:
Methods and devices are provided for activating brown adipose tissue (BAT). Generally, the methods and devices can activate BAT to increase thermogenesis, e.g., increase heat production in the patient, which over time can lead to weight loss. In one embodiment, a medical device is provided that activates BAT by electrically stimulating nerves that activate the BAT and/or electrically stimulating brown adipocytes directly, thereby increasing thermogenesis in the BAT and inducing weight loss through energy expenditure.

Claim (Index 8):
A medical device, comprising:\n a stimulation device configured to be applied to a patient at a depot of brown adipose tissue, the stimulation device including:\n an electrode, \n a signal generator configured to generate an electrical signal, \n a sensor configured to sense occurrence of a predetermined physiological effect experienced by the patient, and \n a controller configured to turn the signal generator on and thereby start continuous delivery of, via the electrode, the electrical signal to the patient having the stimulation device applied thereto for a period of time such that the depot of brown adipose tissue is activated and energy expenditure thereof increases, and the controller is configured to turn the signal generator off in response to a signal from the sensor indicative of the sensor sensing the occurrence of the predetermined physiological effect experienced by the patient, the predetermined physiological effect including at least one of a change in the patient's weight and a change in the patient's tissue impedance; \n wherein the stimulation device is configured to be removed from the patient after the electrical signal has been applied to the patient for the period of time and then re-applied to the patient at a second, different depot of brown adipose tissue and to continuously deliver, via the electrode, a second electrical signal to the patient having the stimulation device applied thereto at the second, different depot of brown adipose tissue for a second period of time such that the second depot of brown adipose tissue is activated and energy expenditure thereof increases.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53571
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15585706', '12980659', '14700611', '13977536', '14584066']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7234689455269333
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5779525597703874
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7089173069512787
- Mean Citation Score: 464.27429000000006
- Max Citation Score: 515.9565
- Similarity Product: 441.2880349143148

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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