PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891231
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["607", "045000"]

Abstract:
The present application is directed to devices and methods that can treat dementia or other brain disorders via electrical stimulation. Embodiments disclosed herein utilize brain stimulation of brain areas involved in memory and cognition through an intraventricular approach. Brain stimulation is combined with CSF flow in an intraventricular electrode having one or more passageways to permit fluid to flow therethrough. For example, an intraventricular electrode shunt catheter can be safely placed in any part of the ventricular system and through any foramen or aqueduct of the ventricular system without fear of obstruction to CSF flow.

Claim (Index 34):
A neuromodulation system configured to pass into, within, or through brain tissue from a lateral entry site to provide bilateral deep brain stimulation, the system comprising:\n an electrode catheter comprising one or more passageways for fluid; and an electrode or effector carried by the electrode catheter configured for bilateral stimulation and configured to modulate neural activity thereby modulating a neural state; wherein the electrode catheter is sized and configured to pass through one lateral ventricle in a unilateral approach through a foramen of Monroe on an ipsilateral side into the third ventricle and through an opposite foramen of Monroe to the contralateral lateral ventricle, and a tip of the electrode catheter is configured to curve under the left fornix and the right fornix by curving from the foramen of Monroe on the ipsilateral side past the ipsilateral fornix to the contralateral fornix.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51515
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11761330', '13347434', '15585917', '12676404', '15585746']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6686932269127656
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4645187960974704
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6482757838312361
- Mean Citation Score: 210.62592400000003
- Max Citation Score: 216.8345
- Similarity Product: 182.1220918476581

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

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