PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16153407
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["606", "048000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for treating an intraosseous nerve. The method includes positioning a hollow shaft through the cortical shell of a vertebral body and into a cancellous bone region of the vertebral body. The hollow shaft includes an annular wall having a longitudinal bore therein, a proximal portion and a distal portion, and a first window extending transversely through the annular wall. An electrosurgical probe is advanced within the longitudinal bore from the proximal portion toward the distal portion. The electrosurgical probe includes a first treatment element at a distal end of the probe, wherein the first treatment element being in electrical connection with a power supply. The first treatment element is slidably disposed within the longitudinal bore so that the first treatment element is advanced radially outward from the window and shaft to affect treatment of the intraosseous nerve within the cancellous bone region.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of treating a vertebral body, comprising:\n positioning a bipolar electrosurgical device through a cortical shell of a vertebral body and into a cancellous bone region of the vertebral body, wherein said electrosurgical device comprises an elongate shaft with a distal electrode on the elongate shaft and a proximal electrode on the elongate shaft, the distal and proximal electrodes forming a bipolar heating device, the elongate shaft including a fluid delivery lumen extending therethrough; heating an intraosseous nerve by applying a voltage between said distal and proximal electrodes to thereby heat at least a portion of the cancellous bone region of the vertebral body; and delivering a cooling fluid to the fluid delivery lumen, wherein said heat is sufficient to treat the vertebral body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24638
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13655683', '14535868', '10401854', '11123766', '13923798']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8148470927472775
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5289723146088073
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7862596149334306
- Mean Citation Score: 357.828792
- Max Citation Score: 429.73904000000016
- Similarity Product: 327.44310074850085

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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