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 19):
A method of reducing a perception of pain, the method comprising the steps of:\n placing or instructing placement of an electrode within tissue a distance spaced from (i) at least one of a Type Ia and Ib afferent nerve fibers and (ii) at least one of Type III and Type IV nerve fibers; and instructing delivery or delivering electrical stimulation through the electrode to selectively activate at least one of the Type Ia and Ib afferent nerve fibers while minimizing recruitment of activation of the at least one of the Type III and Type IV nerve fibers because the electrode is spaced the distance from the at least one of a Type Ia and Ib afferent nerve fibers and the at least one of Type III and Type IV nerve fibers.

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): 0.7313169118602064
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6521455391802496
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7233997745922108
- Mean Citation Score: 474.7371279999999
- Max Citation Score: 667.5424
- Similarity Product: 626.2149074134827

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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