PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15898889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["607", "114000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for applying electrical stimulation to a body by an electrode spaced from a target nerve of passage. It has been discovered that pain felt, or perceived to be felt, in a given region of the body can be treated by stimulating muscle close to a “nerve of passage” in a region that is superior (i.e., cranial or upstream toward the spinal column) to the region where pain is felt, such as in a case of post-amputation residual limb pain, or purportedly felt in the case of post-amputation phantom limb pain.

Claim (Index 28):
A method of reducing a perception of pain, the method comprising the steps of:\n placing or instructing placement of an electrode in tissue in electrical proximity to but spaced away from a neural fiber bundle within a body, wherein the neural fiber bundle comprises at least one of a Type Ia and Ib afferent nerve fiber and an efferent nerve fiber; and delivering or instructing delivery of electrical stimulation from the electrode to the neural fiber bundle to reduce a perception of pain, wherein the at least one of Type Ia and Ib afferent nerve fiber of the neural fiber bundle are selectively activated while minimizing recruitment of activation of the efferent nerve fiber of the neural fiber bundle because the electrode is in electrical proximity but spaced away from the neural fiber bundle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68254
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13605653', '15888338', '13294875', '12653023', '13791710']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7299862785376342
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6563095868599204
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7226186093698628
- Mean Citation Score: 474.7371279999999
- Max Citation Score: 667.5424
- Similarity Product: 639.5902524757386

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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