PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16208532
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["600", "374000"]

Abstract:
A catheter adapted for mapping and/or ablation in the atria has a basket-shaped electrode array with two or more location sensors with a deflectable expander. The catheter has comprises a catheter body, a basket electrode assembly at a distal end of the catheter body, and a control handle at a proximal end of the catheter body. The basket electrode assembly has a plurality of electrode-carrying spines and an expander that is adapted for longitudinal movement relative to the catheter body for expanding and collapsing the assembly via a proximal end portion extending past the control handle that can be pushed or pulled by a user. The expander is also adapted for deflection in responsive to an actuator on the control handle that allows a user to control at least one puller wire extending through the catheter body and the expander.

Claim (Index 1):
A catheter comprising:\n an elongated catheter body having proximal and distal ends and at least one lumen therethrough; an electrode assembly at the distal end of the catheter body, the electrode assembly having proximal and distal ends and comprising a plurality of spines, one or more of the plurality of spines comprising one or more electrodes; an expander having proximal and distal ends, the expander defining a longitudinal axis of the assembly, the distal end of the expander being located proximal of the distal end of the electrode assembly, each of the plurality of spines having a bowed proximal region extending from a proximal end of the spine and a generally straight distal region terminating in a distal end of the spine, the generally straight distal region of each spine being generally coaxial with the expander, and each of the plurality of spines being attached at their proximal ends to the catheter body and at their distal ends to the distal end of the expander; at least one puller wire that extends through the expander, the puller wire having a distal end anchored in the expander; at least one proximal location sensor and at least one distal location sensor; and a control handle proximal of the catheter body, the control handle having an actuator adapted to move the at least one puller wire, the electrode assembly having an expanded arrangement when the expander is moved proximally along the longitudinal axis relative to the catheter body and the electrode assembly has a collapsed arrangement when the expander is moved distally along the longitudinal axis relative to the catheter body, and the expander being configured to deflect in at least one direction when the at least one puller wire is moved by the actuator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05634
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15344445', '14960254', '14028435', '15785373', '11226798']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5557679489170301
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5949299881828645
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5596841528436135
- Mean Citation Score: 503.70188600000006
- Max Citation Score: 524.16156
- Similarity Product: 488.5879536839819

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

Dataset: test