PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980533
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["439", "669000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments disclosed herein include devices and methods pertaining to medical lead connectors. According to various embodiments of the disclosed technology, disclosed is a lead connector that may include a base member; a flexible circuit including a plurality of electrical contacts; a casing that includes a bottom casing and a cover member. The bottom casing may include receptacles open to a surface of the flexible circuit and aligned with electrical contacts on the flexible circuit. The cover member may include a slot opening to receive a lead stylet. Furthermore, the lead connector may include ball contacts positioned in the receptacles. When the lead stylet is inserted into the lead connector, the lead stylet may push the ball contacts downward to make electrical contact with the electrical contacts on the flexible circuit. A portion of the lead stylet may extend beyond an edge of the casing.

Claim (Index 1):
A lead connector comprising:\n a base member; a flexible circuit disposed on the base member and comprising a plurality of electrical contacts; a casing comprising a bottom casing and a cover member, wherein the bottom casing comprises an array of receptacles at least partially open to a surface of the flexible circuit and aligned with corresponding electrical contacts on the flexible circuit, and wherein the cover member comprises a slot opening configured to receive a lead stylet; and an array of ball contacts positioned in the array of receptacles within the bottom casing; wherein when the lead stylet is inserted into the lead connector via the slot opening on the cover member, the lead stylet pushes the array of ball contacts downward to make electrical contact with the corresponding electrical contacts on the flexible circuit, and a portion of the lead stylet extends beyond an edge of the casing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36364
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15640419', '11192257', '13543577', '13655874', '12483035']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7581802006298533
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4985396167599285
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7322161422428608
- Mean Citation Score: 218.933256
- Max Citation Score: 305.9969
- Similarity Product: 269.89788343139287

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test