PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032797
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["600", "425000"]

Abstract:
An integrated therapeutic and imaging device that uses at least two balloons to provide a guarded zone that can be evacuated and replaced with a fluid that is sufficiently clear to permit optical coherence tomography (or even high resolution ultrasound) imaging that would otherwise be of poor quality or impossible. Methods of making and operating the imaging device to obtain clear, high quality images, as well as treating a patient's tissue with the device within a living body in association with obtaining an image of the patient's tissue, are included.

Claim (Index 11):
The catheter of  claim 10 , wherein the flexible elongate body further comprises a further lumen configured to transfer fluid into the tissue zone, and wherein the operative lumen is configured to transfer fluid out of the tissue zone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47761
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14135359', '15614460', '15469085', '15369426', '15600670']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5192711380528516
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5194272782245059
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5192867520700171
- Mean Citation Score: 242.78036
- Max Citation Score: 335.99304
- Similarity Product: 240.7946621995068

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

Dataset: test