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 18):
The method of  claim 12 , wherein the bottom casing comprises two rows of slot openings in parallel formation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36364
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15640419', '11192257', '13543577', '13655874', '12483035']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7794561164992482
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4991631059511363
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.751426815444437
- Mean Citation Score: 218.933256
- Max Citation Score: 305.9969
- Similarity Product: 279.9032531791209

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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