PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968400
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["156", "242000"]

Abstract:
Devices and methods for making devices that temporarily occlude spaces within the body to provide a therapeutic effect.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of manufacturing expandable devices, comprising the steps of:\n providing a thin film of polymeric material, the thin film of polymeric of material comprising a backing side and a working side; positioning the thin film on an open frame and heating the thin film; forming the thin film into a predetermined shape using differential gaseous pressure to conform the thin film to a mold, the predetermined shape having an inner surface and an outer surface, the predetermined shape having a flange region; forming at least two pre-determined shapes to respectively provide at least a first device section and a second device section; disposing the first device section together with the second device section such that the working side of the first and second device section are aligned at the respective flange regions; creating an access hole in at least either the first or second device sections; joining the flange regions of the first and second device sections to form a fluid tight seam around the joined flange regions; trimming an excess material from around the flange region; and inverting the device though the access hole.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.0
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14642590', '14069776', '13901338', '14073665', '13773516']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8930807126027654
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.498614861518481
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8536341274943371
- Mean Citation Score: 198.163026
- Max Citation Score: 216.89171
- Similarity Product: 138.4062077511728

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

Dataset: test