PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880392
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["072", "063000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for crimping a radially expandable stent includes a pressure vessel, shaping balloon, and mandrel. The mandrel is configured to slidingly receive a stent thereon, and to be slidingly advanced into the pressure vessel. The shaping balloon is inflated to radially compress the stent onto the form of the mandrel; such compression need not be uniform. Pressurization of the shaping balloon facilitates the expansion of the balloon to achieve compression of the stent, with depressurization of the shaping balloon causing the balloon to return to an unexpanded state.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of shaping a stent, the method comprising:\n providing a pressure vessel having a shaping balloon having a radially inwardly facing balloon opening; providing a mandrel comprising a non-cylindrical stent-receiving portion, wherein the mandrel is sized and configured to be slidingly advanced into the pressure vessel to a position where the stent-receiving portion is positioned within the balloon opening; positioning a stent onto the stent-receiving portion of the mandrel; slidingly advancing the mandrel into the pressure vessel lumen to a position where the stent-receiving portion is positioned within the balloon opening; inflating the shaping balloon with sufficient pressure to cause the balloon opening to compress the stent against the stent-receiving portion of the mandrel and deform the stent into the non-cylindrical shape of the stent-receiving portion; after or during the step of inflating the shaping balloon, exposing the stent to a desired shape-setting temperature; after exposing the stent to the desired shape-setting temperature, exposing the stent to a desired reduced temperature that is below the desired shape-setting temperature; deflating the shaping balloon; withdrawing the mandrel from the pressure vessel; and removing the stent from the mandrel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96
- Patent Class: 72.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15254955', '13675678', '10022996', '14194541', '11876458']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7001003547937384
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5538596434295032
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6854762836573149
- Mean Citation Score: 281.276992
- Max Citation Score: 417.8319
- Similarity Product: 363.48501494321823

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

Dataset: test