PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106937
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["607", "119000"]

Abstract:
An EMI/energy dissipating filter for an active implantable medical device (AIMD) is described. The filter comprises a first gold braze hermetically sealing the insulator to a ferrule that is configured to be mounted in an opening in a housing for the AIMD. A lead wire is hermetically sealed in a passageway through the insulator by a second gold braze. A circuit board substrate is disposed adjacent the insulator. A two-terminal chip capacitor disposed adjacent to the circuit board has an active end metallization that is electrically connected to the active electrode plates and a ground end metallization that is electrically connected to the at least one ground electrode plates of the chip capacitor. There is a ground path electrically extending between the ground end metallization of the chip capacitor and the ferrule. The ground path comprises at least a first electrical connection material connected directly to the first gold braze, and at least an internal ground plate disposed within the circuit board substrate with the internal ground plate being electrically connected to both the first electrical connection material and the ground end metallization of the chip capacitor. An active path electrically extends between the active end metallization of the chip capacitor and the lead wire.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of making a filtered feedthrough assembly for an implantable medical device, the method comprising:\n a) providing a circuit board having a plurality of ground plates, a plurality of vias extending through the ground plates, and a plurality of capacitors, each of the capacitors having an active termination and a ground termination electrically coupled to the plurality of ground plates through at least one of the vias; b) coupling an electrical insulator to a ferrule using an electrically conductive gold braze; c) disposing a plurality of feedthrough conductive lead wires through the electrical insulator and attaching the feedthrough conductive lead wires to the electrical insulator; d) coupling the circuit board to one or more of the ferrule, the electrical insulator, and the feedthrough conductive lead wires; e) electrically coupling each of the feedthrough conductive lead wires to the active termination of a respective one of the capacitors; and f) electrically coupling the gold braze to the plurality of ground plates through the vias.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15373139', '15375315', '15398098', '15375235', '15651045']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8172660203495093
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6333285723134526
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7988722755459037
- Mean Citation Score: 680.4256499999998
- Max Citation Score: 685.67224
- Similarity Product: 573.2850712217712

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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