PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16215000
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["607", "002000"]

Abstract:
The invention generally relates to methods for treating osteoarthritis. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve providing stimulation to a subject's central nervous system to modulate a signal sent to or from the subject's joint, thereby treating osteoarthritis.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for treating osteoarthritis pain in a subject, the method comprising:\n noninvasively placing an anode electrode over C3/C4 of a head of a subject, corresponding to a location of a motor cortex of the subject; noninvasively placing a cathode electrode over a contralateral orbital of the head of the subject; and noninvasively and transcranially delivering transcranial direct current stimulation via the anode electrode and the cathode electrode to the motor cortex of the subject to thereby treat osteoarthritis pain of the subject.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.40625
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13102476', '15801889', '15483116', '13162047', '14704270']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6125459137343122
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.546621864490856
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6059535088099666
- Mean Citation Score: 323.5194
- Max Citation Score: 415.06146
- Similarity Product: 330.68864388688445

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test