PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16057506
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["606", "033000"]

Abstract:
Devices and methods for treating tissue with microwave energy used in applications such as destroying a soft tissue by microwave ablation and/or creating point, line, area or volumetric lesions. Various embodiments of flexible, low-profile devices are also disclosed where such device can be inserted non-invasively or minimally invasively near or into the target tissue such as cardiac tissue. The devices disclosed herein comprise antennas wherein the field profile generated by an antenna is tailored and optimized for a particular clinical application. The antennas use unique properties of microwaves such as interaction of a microwave field with one or more conductive or non-conductive shaping elements to shape or redistribute the microwave field.

Claim (Index 1):
A microwave energy delivery device for supplying energy from an energy source, the microwave energy delivery device comprising:\n a microwave antenna coupled to the energy source, the microwave antenna comprising a radiating element and a shaping element; the radiating element comprises a planar loop shape having a transverse section that deforms when advanced against tissue while remaining in the planer loop shape, the radiating element configured to emit a volumetric microwave field when energized by the energy source; and where the shaping element is electrically insulated from the radiating element and is positioned adjacent to the radiating element such that the shaping element alters a shape of the microwave field to be limited uniformly around the microwave antenna portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45679
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14635980', '12603077', '12829222', '15961557', '12603349']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8297759143660712
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5469393627330039
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8014922592027646
- Mean Citation Score: 436.694414
- Max Citation Score: 463.9742
- Similarity Product: 395.100457770884

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

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