PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16169898
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["604", "508000"]

Abstract:
A valve is disclosed, the valve comprising a housing having an first opening and a second opening, and an elastomeric member positioned in the housing, the elastomeric member comprising a thickness, a continuous peripheral wall projecting from the thickness, and a slit extending through the thickness, a continuous portion of the peripheral wall creating a continuous sealable contact with the housing and partitioning the housing into an upper section and a lower section, the elastomeric member configured such that upon creating a pressure differential between the upper section and the lower section of the housing causes either: (i) the peripheral wall to deflect from the housing permitting fluid flow around the elastomeric member; or (ii) the slit to open permitting fluid flow through the elastomeric member. Methods using the valve are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 27):
The method of  claim 26 , wherein the cleaning further comprises preventing thrombus or bacterial growth within the device after aspiration of biological fluid through the device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20896
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14777162', '10207113', '10264863', '10423484', '11350059']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7704551020009361
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5320874883073279
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7466183406315753
- Mean Citation Score: 226.15452
- Max Citation Score: 364.12387
- Similarity Product: 281.1013541576993

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