PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980387
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["210", "636000"]

Abstract:
A renal therapy apparatus includes a blood filter, a blood pump, a treatment fluid pump, and a control unit configured to control at least one of the blood pump or the treatment fluid pump during a filter cleaning sequence. In a first phase of the filter cleaning sequence, a first fluid including a blood-compatible and physiologically safe fluid is transferred back and forth across the insides and/or outsides of the blood filter. After the first phase, a second fluid is formed by mixing the first fluid with air. In a second phase of the filter cleaning sequence, the second fluid is transferred across the insides and/or outsides of the blood filter at least one time.

Claim (Index 1):
A renal therapy apparatus comprising:\n a blood filter including a plurality of hollow fiber membranes; arterial and venous lines in fluid communication with the blood filter; a blood pump for pumping blood through the arterial and venous lines and the blood filter; a treatment fluid pump in fluid communication with (a) a treatment fluid side of the blood filter or (b) the arterial or venous line; a control unit configured to control the blood pump and the treatment fluid pump during treatment and at least one of the blood pump or the treatment fluid pump during a filter cleaning sequence in which\n (i) in a first phase of the filter cleaning sequence, a first fluid including a blood-compatible and physiologically safe fluid is transferred back and forth across the insides and/or outsides of the plurality of hollow fiber membranes, \n (ii) after the first phase, a second fluid is formed by mixing the first fluid with air, and \n (iii) in a second phase of the filter cleaning sequence, the second fluid is transferred across the insides and/or outsides of the plurality of hollow fiber membranes at least one time, \n wherein the use of the first and second fluids including the physiologically safe fluid enables the filter cleaning sequence to be performed, if desired, during the treatment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13736602', '11876625', '13828731', '11773634', '15492626']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7921928028973805
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5847330419236586
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7714468268000083
- Mean Citation Score: 328.074548
- Max Citation Score: 504.97888
- Similarity Product: 457.2487414835168

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

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