PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916560
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["607", "122000"]

Abstract:
A catheter with a spring tip that facilitates atraumatic initial placement and also continues to protect tissue contacted by the catheter device subsequent to the initial placement. The spring tip is shock-absorbing and axially compliant and allows enhanced use of various devices in conjunction with the tip such as bioptomes, electrodes, needles, flushing catheters, delivery catheters, and the like. The atraumatic shock-absorbing tip could include conductive or non-conductive materials.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1  wherein performing a procedure on the target tissue comprises sending electricity through the tissue using the spring tip as an electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48077
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14516526', '14900118', '10856904', '12489258', '14276133']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7241838965987579
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5363777018428062
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7054032771231628
- Mean Citation Score: 234.904596
- Max Citation Score: 404.58618
- Similarity Product: 327.8610173164273

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

Dataset: test