PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961557
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "033000"]

Abstract:
The invention comprises novel microwave antennas wherein the microwave field profile generated by an antenna is tailored and optimized for a particular clinical application. The antennas disclosed herein incorporate one or more additional elements called shaping elements that use unique properties of microwaves such as interaction of a microwave field with one or more conductive or non-conductive elements to shape or redistribute the microwave field. Such shaping elements may be used to reduce the undesired backward coupling of the emitted microwave field to the transmission line. Such shaping elements may be used to increase the power efficiency of the antenna. The invention also discloses devices and methods for treating tissue with microwave energy emitted from the antennas for use in applications such as destroying a soft tissue by microwave ablation.

Claim (Index 14):
The microwave antenna of  claim 1 , where the dielectric material covers a portion of the proximal loop shape.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77632
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12829222', '12603077', '14635980', '12603349', '12603134']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8383665821297612
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5361366337483497
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8081435872916201
- Mean Citation Score: 403.832412
- Max Citation Score: 448.2939
- Similarity Product: 334.1057459292948

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

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