PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15894753
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "037000"]

Abstract:
Medical devices, systems, and methods reduce the distance between two points in tissue, often for treatment of congestive heart failure and often in a minimally invasive manner. An anchor is inserted along an insertion path through a first wall of the heart. An arm of the anchor is deployed and rotationally positioned according to a desired alignment. Application of tension to the anchor may draw the first and second walls of the heart into contact along a desired contour so as to effect a desired change in the geometry of the heart. Additional anchors may be inserted and aligned with the first anchor to close off a portion of a ventricle such that the ventricle is geometrically remodeled and disease progression is reversed, halted, and/or slowed.

Claim (Index 41):
A system for treating a heart of a patient comprising:\n a catheter that is configured so that a distal end of the catheter that is advanceable percutaneously through an atrium of the heart and into a first chamber of the heart, the catheter being further configured so that the distal end of the catheter is positionable adjacent a first wall of the heart; an elongate body that is disposed within a lumen of the catheter and that is advanceable from the distal end of the catheter to perforate dysfunctional tissue of the first wall of the heart; a guidewire that is disposed within the lumen of the catheter and that is advanceable from the distal end of the catheter through the first wall so that a distal end of the guidewire is positioned within a second chamber of the heart, the catheter being configured so that the distal end of the catheter is advanceable over the guidewire, through the first wall, and into the second chamber of the heart, the elongate body being advanceable from the distal end of the catheter within the second chamber to perforate dysfunctional tissue of a second wall of the heart, and the guidewire being advanceable from the distal end of the catheter through the second wall so that the distal end of the guidewire is positioned external to the heart; a first anchor that is deliverable, via the catheter, to a position adjacent the second wall of the heart; a second anchor that is deliverable, via the catheter, to a position adjacent the first wall of the heart; and a tension member that operably couples the first anchor and the second anchor and that is configured to draw the first wall and the second wall toward one another via tension that is applied between the first anchor and the second anchor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74359
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15341945', '13949025', '14636068', '12506661', '12245040']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5432826925535478
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6016205159500979
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5491164748932028
- Mean Citation Score: 484.102706
- Max Citation Score: 552.0627
- Similarity Product: 491.3531692072749

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