PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970404
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["606", "041000"]

Abstract:
Systems, devices, and methods for electroporation ablation therapy are disclosed, with the device including a first jaw including a plurality of first electrodes and a second jaw including a plurality of second electrodes. The first jaw and the second jaw may be substantially rigid, elongate, and collectively define a longitudinal axis. The first jaw and the second jaw may be configured to engage tissue therebetween during use.

Claim (Index 49):
A method of ablating tissue via irreversible electroporation comprising:\n clamping the tissue between a first jaw and a second jaw of an apparatus, the first jaw including a first plurality of electrodes, the second jaw including a second plurality of electrodes, the first jaw and the second jaw being substantially rigid, elongate, and collectively defining a longitudinal axis, each electrode of the first plurality of electrodes having a width orthogonal to the longitudinal axis that is less than a length parallel to the longitudinal axis of that electrode, the first plurality of electrodes spaced apart laterally with respect to the longitudinal axis, each electrode of the second plurality of electrodes having a width orthogonal to the longitudinal axis that is less than a length parallel to the longitudinal axis of that electrode, the plurality of second electrodes spaced apart laterally with respect to the longitudinal axis; configuring a first electrode of the first plurality of electrodes as an anode; configuring a second electrode of the second plurality of electrodes as a cathode, the first and second electrodes, within a cross-section of the apparatus that is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, being disposed diagonally across from one another and being spaced apart laterally from one another; generating, using a pulse generator, a pulse waveform having an amplitude of at least 200 Volts; delivering the pulse waveform to the first and second electrodes such that the first and second electrodes generate a pulsed electric field that causes irreversible electroporation in the tissue and generates an ablation zone that forms non-centrally in the tissue.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.875
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15711266', '15965564', '15796255', '15874721', '11970005']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7809217125580211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4818208636818435
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7510116276704033
- Mean Citation Score: 209.650218
- Max Citation Score: 242.01003
- Similarity Product: 174.1194814158797

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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