PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15921459
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["623", "001160"]

Abstract:
A plaque tack can be used for holding plaque against blood vessel walls such as in treating atherosclerotic occlusive disease. The plaque tack can be formed as a thin, annular band for holding loose plaque under a spring or other expansion force against a blood vessel wall. Focal elevating elements and/or other features, such as anchors, can be used to exert a holding force on a plaque position while minimizing the amount of material surface area in contact with the plaque or blood vessel wall and reducing the potential of friction with the endoluminal surface. This approach offers clinicians the ability to perform a minimally invasive post-angioplasty treatment and produce a stent-like result without using a stent.

Claim (Index 27):
A self-expanding intravascular implant comprising:\n a tubular body having a proximal end, a distal end and a lumen extending therethrough, the tubular body comprising a zig-zag distal-most ring and a zig-zag proximal-most ring connected to each other by a plurality of bridge members, the tubular body forming only a single column of cells which comprises at least one open cell bound by the zig-zag distal-most ring, a first bridge member of the plurality of bridge members the zig-zag proximal-most ring, and a second bridge member of the plurality of bridge members, wherein the tubular body has a compression force curve being a measure of the amount of radial compression force required to compress the tubular body along a range of outer diameters, and has an expansion force curve being a measure of the amount of radial expansion force exerted by the tubular body when the tubular body self-expands through the range of outer diameters which range of outer diameters at least about 2 mm, the compression force is greater than the expansion force through the range of outer diameters, and a difference between the radial force of the compression force curve and the expansion force curve is no more than about 3 Newtons (N) through the range of outer diameters.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63158
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15170772', '15921448', '14089703', '15837870', '13153257']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8471761674683803
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6192675396921404
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8243853046907563
- Mean Citation Score: 533.9812099999998
- Max Citation Score: 612.3466
- Similarity Product: 567.4949150818227

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

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