PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017465
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["623", "002110"]

Abstract:
An assembly includes a prosthetic heart valve and a delivery apparatus for implanting the prosthetic heart valve within the native aortic valve of a patient. The prosthetic heart valve has a radially compressible and expandable metallic stent and a flexible valvular structure mounted within the stent. The delivery apparatus has a handle, a first shaft having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, a second shaft extending co-axially through the first shaft and having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, the proximal end portions of the first and second shafts extending distally from the handle, a valve cover coupled to the distal end portion of the first shaft, and a nose piece coupled to the distal end portion of the second shaft.

Claim (Index 14):
A method, comprising:\n inserting a prosthetic heart valve and a distal end portion of a delivery apparatus into the body of a patient, the prosthetic heart valve comprising a radially compressible and expandable metallic stent and a flexible valvular structure mounted within the stent, and the delivery apparatus comprising a handle, a first shaft extending distally from the handle, a valve cover coupled to a distal end portion of the first shaft, a second shaft extending distally from the handle and extending co-axially though the first shaft, a nose piece coupled to a distal end portion of the second shaft, wherein the second shaft is placed in tension to hold a proximal end portion of the nose piece against a distal end portion of the valve cover and the prosthetic valve is radially crimped around the second shaft with an inlet portion of the prosthetic valve retained within the nose piece and an outlet portion of the prosthetic valve retained within the valve cover; advancing a distal end portion of the delivery apparatus and the prosthetic valve through the patient's vasculature to reach a selected implantation location wherein the prosthetic valve is positioned within the native aortic annulus; retracting the first shaft relative to the second shaft so as to retract the valve cover proximally relative to the prosthetic valve; advancing the second shaft distally relative to the first shaft to advance the nose piece distally relative to the prosthetic valve; and radially expanding the prosthetic valve within the native aortic annulus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59615
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15676817', '11852977', '15042049', '12247846', '14182169']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8424193506135581
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5841736781480625
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8165947833670085
- Mean Citation Score: 437.88274
- Max Citation Score: 521.85333
- Similarity Product: 459.9350802384639

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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