PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16177309
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["607", "032000"]

Abstract:
An electric stimulator for heart (as in heart pacemakers), brain (as in DBS), organs and general cells, with a supporting structure where there exists a plurality of electrically isolated electrodes called passive electrodes or field-shaping electrodes that are located under the surface of the supporting structure. The passive electrodes are controlled by an appropriate electronics control unit and powered by some electric energy storage, as a battery. Passive or field-shaping electrodes are electrically insulated, being unable to inject current in the surrounding medium, but they are capable of shaping the electric field in the space surrounding the electrodes, which has consequence on the path of the stimulating currents injected by other devices or by the organism itself. The invention also discloses locating the passive electrodes at different depths from the surface of the supporting structure.

Claim (Index 1):
A device for controlling an electrical stimulation of a target area or a target volume of an animal, comprising:\n a. an electric stimulating assist system comprising: a body, an electric energy storage unit, a control unit, and a supporting structure configured to be anchored in the vicinity of the the target area or the target volume, b. the supporting structure capable of keeping in fixed position at least one field shaping electrode electrically coupled to the energy storage unit and to the control unit, wherein each of the at least one field-shaping electrodes with a volume and a surface, below the surface or at the surface of the electric stimulating assist system, the electric stimulating assist system connected electrically with wires to the electric energy storage unit configured to produce a required electric potential at the at least one field-shaping electrodes located at the electric stimulating assist system, wherein the surfaces of the at least one field-shaping electrodes are covered by an electrically insulating layer which prevents electric charges from moving out of any of the at least one field-shaping electrodes, wherein the at least one field-shaping electrodes are adapted to project an electric field in the space surrounding the electric stimulating assist system, wherein the at least one field-shaping electrode belongs to the at least one sub-surface layer below the surface of the electric stimulating assist system, wherein the electric field projected by the at least one field-shaping electrode is configured to apply a force on the propagating electric charges in the space surrounding the body of the electric stimulating assist system, guiding the propagating electric charges on a target path and/or to keep the propagating electric charges inside a target volume.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70455
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16175840', '15019969', '13470275', '14150767', '15275304']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6589880456398464
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.626512708891438
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6557405119650055
- Mean Citation Score: 413.271968
- Max Citation Score: 575.2036
- Similarity Product: 562.0229433758259

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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