PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16149636
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["606", "108000"]

Abstract:
A delivery sheath includes an outer tubular layer and an initially folded inner tubular layer. When an implant passes therethrough, the outer tubular layer expands and the inner tubular layer unfolds into an expanded lumen diameter. The sheath may also include selectively placed longitudinal support rods that mediate friction between the inner and outer tubular layers to facilitate easy expansion, thereby reducing the push force needed to advance the implant through the sheath's lumen.

Claim (Index 8):
The sheath of  claim 6 , wherein when the sheath is in an unexpanded configuration, overlapping portions of the one or more folds extend longitudinally along a length of the inner member, and the overlapping portions extending generally parallel to and partially around a central longitudinal axis of the sheath.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56863
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16149671', '16149650', '16149697', '16149947', '14880111']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8297434084045712
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5700536317605333
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8037744307401674
- Mean Citation Score: 448.606242
- Max Citation Score: 508.78537
- Similarity Product: 428.2249126011634

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

Dataset: test