PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880392
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["072", "063000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for crimping a radially expandable stent includes a pressure vessel, shaping balloon, and mandrel. The mandrel is configured to slidingly receive a stent thereon, and to be slidingly advanced into the pressure vessel. The shaping balloon is inflated to radially compress the stent onto the form of the mandrel; such compression need not be uniform. Pressurization of the shaping balloon facilitates the expansion of the balloon to achieve compression of the stent, with depressurization of the shaping balloon causing the balloon to return to an unexpanded state.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the pressure vessel comprises a central opening defined by upper and lower openings in upper and lower walls, respectively, and the shaping balloon resides between the upper and lower walls with the balloon opening in a deflated configuration of the balloon being radially larger than the upper and lower openings so that a continuous lumen extends between the upper and lower openings, and wherein the mandrel comprises an upper mandrel portion configured to fit tightly into the upper opening, a lower mandrel portion configured to fit tightly into the lower opening, and a central mandrel portion defining the stent-receiving area which has one or more areas smaller in diameter than that of either of the upper mandrel portion or lower mandrel portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96
- Patent Class: 72.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15254955', '13675678', '10022996', '14194541', '11876458']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7250017468613988
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.554997831545466
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7080013553298056
- Mean Citation Score: 281.276992
- Max Citation Score: 417.8319
- Similarity Product: 350.062639939338

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