PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986970
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["600", "473000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for visualizing ablated tissue are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system for imaging tissue comprising: a catheter having a distal end and a proximal end; an inflatable balloon disposed about the distal end of the catheter; and an optical housing extending from the distal end of the catheter into the balloon, the optical housing being configured to position inside the balloon a light source for illuminating a tissue outside the balloon and a camera for imaging the illuminated tissue.

Claim (Index 23):
A method for imaging tissue comprising:\n advancing to a tissue an elongated body having a distal end and a proximal end; ablating the tissue with an ablation device disposed at the distal end of the elongated body; illuminating with light having at least one wavelength between about 300 nm and about 400 nm from a light source an area of tissue including tissue treated by ablation and surrounding tissue to excite NADH in the area of tissue; detecting with a sensor the area of tissue to detect light having at least one wavelength between about 435 nm and about 485 nm to detect NADH fluorescence of the area of tissue; and producing and displaying a representation of the NADH fluorescence, the display illustrating ablated tissue as having less fluorescence than non-ablated tissue.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85417
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14689475', '13624902', '13624899', '14931325', '10233158']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5733222577963426
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6273909606592752
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5787291280826359
- Mean Citation Score: 498.967182
- Max Citation Score: 633.06964
- Similarity Product: 563.3966516218807

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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