PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978917
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["607", "110000"]

Abstract:
A blood flow restricting apparatus is provided. The blood flow restricting apparatus can include a frame element configured to be securable to a user's head. At least one cooling pad can be operatively arranged with the adjustable frame element and configured to be arranged over a defined anatomic location including at least one of a pair of supratrochlear arteries, a pair of supraorbital arteries, a pair of temporal arteries, and a pair of occipital arteries of the user's head when the frame element is secured to the user's head. A pressurizing mechanism can be operatively arranged with the at least one cooling pad and capable of pressing the at least one cooling pad against the defined anatomic location to restrict blood flow to each of the targeted arteries while simultaneously cooling the defined anatomic location to induce hypothermic induced vasoconstriction.

Claim (Index 10):
A blood flow restricting apparatus for independently restricting blood flow at targeted arterial areas of a scalp comprising:\n a frame element configured to be securable to a user's head; at least one cooling pad operatively arranged with the adjustable frame element and including a cooling element capable of producing a cooling effect, the at least one cooling pad configured to extend over a defined anatomic location including the targeted arterial areas chosen from at least two of i) corresponding pairs of supratrochlear and supraorbital arteries, ii) a corresponding pair of temporal arteries, and iii) a corresponding pair of occipital arteries of the user's head when the frame element is secured to the user's head and lower a temperature of a user's scalp in a vicinity of the targeted arterial areas; and a plurality of independently actuable pressurizing mechanisms operatively arranged with the at least one cooling pad and supported by the frame element over the defined anatomic location, the independently actuable pressurizing mechanisms capable of independently pressing the at least one cooling pad against the defined anatomic location to an extent that blood flow is restricted at the targeted arterial areas while simultaneously cooling the targeted arterial areas to induce hypothermic induced vasoconstriction such that the restricted blood flow reduces a delivery of chemotherapeutic agents to the scalp to limit hair loss.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41935
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14610149', '13875865', '15558386', '15600499', '15949987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6374371146951047
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4883986764748229
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6225332708730765
- Mean Citation Score: 176.79996
- Max Citation Score: 191.52167
- Similarity Product: 118.37786374387144

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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