PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873290
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["607", "040000"]

Abstract:
Methods, devices and systems for improving pelvic floor dysfunction in a patient suffering therefrom by electrically modulating neural tissue in a minimally invasive fashion using an electrical microstimulator are provided. Methods include inserting an electrical microstimulator having a re-deployable fixation member through skin of a patient's leg and advancing the electrical microstimulator through the skin along tissue of a surgical pathway to an area of the patient's leg. A target implant site can be identified that is above deep fascia and below the skin and that is adjacent to a target nerve associated with pelvic floor function. The electrical microstimulator can be anchored to the target implant site via the re-deployable fixation member or re-positioned, if necessary. A therapy electrical signal can be delivered to the target nerve from the target implant site.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 4 , wherein sensing an evoked electrical signal comprises placing a sensor on the patient's foot and continuously measuring EMG activity of a muscle of the patient's foot innervated by the nerve as the electrical microstimulator is advanced along the surgical pathway and the stimulation signal is delivered to the nerve by the stimulating electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84416
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11606774', '11739982', '10723316', '09929596', '11414615']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6747318148708296
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.510253403320071
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6582839737157538
- Mean Citation Score: 240.691698
- Max Citation Score: 244.89348
- Similarity Product: 149.7756947608995

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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