PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893838
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["607", "062000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to implantable neuromodulation systems and methods, and in particular to systems and methods for sensing blood-based parameter changes triggered by neural stimulation and subsequently optimizing the stimulation parameters based on feedback from the sensed blood-based parameter changes. Particularly, aspects of the present invention are directed to a method that includes delivering neural stimulation to a nerve or artery/nerve plexus based on a first set of stimulation parameters, monitoring a response to the neural stimulation that includes monitoring responses of the nerve or artery/nerve plexus and blood-based parameters of the artery, modifying the first set of the stimulation parameters based on the blood-based parameters to create a second set of stimulation parameters, and delivering the neural stimulation based on the second set of the stimulation parameters.

Claim (Index 8):
A medical system comprising:\n an implantable neurostimulator including:\n a housing; \n a feedthrough assembly that passes through the housing; and \n an electronics module within the housing and connected to the one or more feedthroughs, wherein the electronics module includes a pulse generator, a controller, and a memory storing program instructions; and \n a lead assembly including:\n a lead body including a conductor material; \n a lead connector that connects the conductor material to the feedthrough assembly; and \n one or more electrodes and one or more sensors connected to the conductor material, \n wherein the program instructions when operated on by the controller, cause the controller to perform operations comprising:\n delivering neural stimulation using the pulse generator and the one or more electrodes based on a first set of stimulation parameters to a nerve or artery/nerve plexus; \n monitoring a response to the neural stimulation that includes monitoring responses of the nerve or artery/nerve plexus and blood-based parameters of the artery using the one or more sensors; \n modifying the first set of the stimulation parameters based on the blood-based parameters to create a second set of stimulation parameters, and \n delivering the neural stimulation using the pulse generator and the one or more electrodes based on the second set of the stimulation parameters.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42857
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13789521', '13789509', '14069744', '14075941', '13568887']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6474534842047754
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4938024735830443
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6320883831426023
- Mean Citation Score: 239.647518
- Max Citation Score: 242.48784
- Similarity Product: 160.58594898081782

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

Dataset: test