PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873323
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["607", "046000"]

Abstract:
Methods and devices for improving pelvic floor dysfunction in a patient suffering therefrom by electrically modulating neural tissue in a minimally invasive fashion using an electrical micro stimulator are provided.

Claim (Index 9):
A method of intra-operatively identifying a target medical device implant site adjacent to a target nerve in a patient comprising:\n advancing a stimulation device along a surgical pathway to the target medical device implant site; delivering to the target nerve a stimulation signal having a baseline amplitude; detecting a resulting baseline evoked electrical signal in response to the stimulation signal; delivering to the target nerve a subsequent stimulation signal having the baseline amplitude; detecting a subsequent resulting evoked electrical signal in response to the subsequent delivered stimulation signal; delivering to the target nerve a further stimulation signal having a reduced amplitude if the subsequent resulting evoked electrical signal increases above the baseline evoked electrical signal; determining if a further resulting evoked electrical signal is elicited by the further stimulation signal and remains constant for a pre-determined time period; and identifying the target medical device implant site when the further resulting evoked electrical signal remains constant for the pre-determined time period.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.06897
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15873290', '09931804', '11739982', '13840936', '15084356']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6585852081372083
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.539355623264791
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6466622496499667
- Mean Citation Score: 264.50846
- Max Citation Score: 417.17496
- Similarity Product: 320.14360619490617

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

Dataset: test