PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200366
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["623", "002110"]

Abstract:
An assembly for delivering a prosthetic heart valve to a native heart valve is disclosed. The assembly includes a self-expanding prosthetic heart valve formed with an expandable metallic stent and a flexible valvular structure. The assembly also includes a delivery apparatus having a delivery sleeve. The delivery sleeve includes a selectively steerable section and a distal portion for retaining the prosthetic heart valve in a compressed state. A handle is coupled to a proximal end of the delivery sleeve and a pull wire extends from the handle to the steerable section of the delivery sleeve. The handle preferably includes a rotatable portion for actuating the pull wire and thereby selectively controlling a curvature of the steerable section during advancement through the patient's vasculature. In preferred embodiments, the steerable section includes a flexible metallic tubular portion formed with a plurality of circumferentially extending openings.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein the act of positioning the prosthetic valve comprises aligning the prosthetic valve with respect to the native aortic valve by controlling the curvature of the steerable section and pushing the balloon catheter across the native aortic valve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12855378', '16200431', '13774848', '16200458', '11152288']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8968739226530834
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5884870473024472
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8660352351180198
- Mean Citation Score: 571.065026
- Max Citation Score: 587.43896
- Similarity Product: 472.72544643841735

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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