PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980533
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["439", "669000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments disclosed herein include devices and methods pertaining to medical lead connectors. According to various embodiments of the disclosed technology, disclosed is a lead connector that may include a base member; a flexible circuit including a plurality of electrical contacts; a casing that includes a bottom casing and a cover member. The bottom casing may include receptacles open to a surface of the flexible circuit and aligned with electrical contacts on the flexible circuit. The cover member may include a slot opening to receive a lead stylet. Furthermore, the lead connector may include ball contacts positioned in the receptacles. When the lead stylet is inserted into the lead connector, the lead stylet may push the ball contacts downward to make electrical contact with the electrical contacts on the flexible circuit. A portion of the lead stylet may extend beyond an edge of the casing.

Claim (Index 32):
A method of using a lead connector for medical purposes comprising:\n inserting two or more leads into two or more openings of a lead connector, the lead connector comprising:\n a base member; \n a flexible circuit configured to support electrical connections; \n a casing comprising a bottom casing and a detachable cover member to be placed on top of the bottom casing, wherein the bottom casing comprises two or more openings to provide access to a surface of the flexible circuit; and \n two or more arrays of ball contacts positioned on top of the slot openings within the bottom casing; \n placing the two or more leads into the two or more openings on the lead connector till the two or more leads push down on the two or more arrays of ball contacts; and aligning the two or more leads with the two or more arrays of ball contacts, such that each of the electric contacts of a given lead is positioned to touch a corresponding electrode ball contact.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36364
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15640419', '11192257', '13543577', '13655874', '12483035']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7580532243808046
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4998443657448908
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7322323385172131
- Mean Citation Score: 218.933256
- Max Citation Score: 305.9969
- Similarity Product: 262.1015650861263

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

Dataset: test