PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968315
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["607", "046000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for managing pain uses separate varying electromagnetic fields, with a variety of temporal and amplitude characteristics, which are applied to a particular neural structure to modulate glial and neuronal interactions as a mechanism for relieving chronic pain. In another embodiment, a single composite modulation/stimulation signal which has rhythmically varying characteristics is used to achieve the same results as separate varying electromagnetic fields. Also, disclosed is an apparatus and method for modulating the expression of genes involved in diverse pathways including inflammatory/immune system mediators, ion channels and neurotransmitters, in both the Spinal Cord (SC) and Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG) where such expression modulation is caused by spinal cord stimulation or peripheral nerve stimulation using the disclosed apparatus and techniques. In one embodiment of multimodal modulation therapy, the prime signal may be monophasic, or biphasic, in which the polarity of the first phase of the biphasic prime signal may be either cathodic or anodic while the tonic signal may be either monophasic, or biphasic, with the polarity of the first phase of the biphasic tonic signal being either cathodic or anodic.

Claim (Index 68):
The method of  claim 67 , wherein the first varying electromagnetic field and the second varying electromagnetic field are provided by first and second electrical signals, respectively, having different respective frequencies below 1,500 Hz.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84404
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15966409', '15075565', '15075582', '15966379', '15075550']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8020144180170592
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.575726170726595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7793855932880128
- Mean Citation Score: 556.1512799999998
- Max Citation Score: 563.17944
- Similarity Product: 400.4701761720371

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

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