PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16153376
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["607", "044000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are provided for monopolar neuromodulation, e.g., via a pulsed electric field. Such monopolar neuromodulation may effectuate irreversible electroporation or electrofusion, necrosis and/or inducement of apoptosis, alteration of gene expression, action potential attenuation or blockade, changes in cytokine up-regulation and other conditions in target neural fibers. In some embodiments, monopolar neuromodulation is applied to neural fibers that contribute to renal function. In some embodiments, such monopolar neuromodulation is performed bilaterally.

Claim (Index 26):
A method, comprising:\n intravascularly positioning a renal denervation catheter in a low-profile delivery arrangement within a renal blood vessel of a hypertensive human patient and adjacent to renal nerves innervating a kidney of the patient; transforming the catheter from the low-profile delivery arrangement to an expanded arrangement at a treatment site within the renal blood vessel, wherein, in the expanded arrangement, a plurality of energy delivery elements of the renal denervation catheter are positioned in contact with an inner wall of the renal blood vessel of the patient; and delivering an electric field between the plurality of energy delivery elements and a ground pad coupled to an exterior of the patient, wherein delivering the electric field comprises delivering a substantially uniform circumferential energy field about the renal blood vessel at the treatment site, and wherein delivering the electric field attenuates neural communication along the renal nerves and results in a therapeutically beneficial reduction in blood pressure of the patient.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47368
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14611651', '15231517', '15623428', '14548810', '15075789']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7098137514353046
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6084037636230293
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.699672752654077
- Mean Citation Score: 552.5993139999998
- Max Citation Score: 580.3829
- Similarity Product: 524.3215810420929

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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