PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864845
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["623", "001130"]

Abstract:
A stent/graft assembly includes a tubular graft connected in substantially end-to-end relationship with a generally tubular stent.

Claim (Index 12):
An endovascular stent graft assembly for repairing a section of a blood vessel that has an aneurysm, the blood vessel having first and second relatively healthy sections adjacent and on opposite ends of the aneurysm, the assembly comprising:\n a stent having opposite first and second axial ends; a one piece bifurcated graft having a first axial end and two free ends remote from the first axial end and at least one flexible wall portion disposed between the first axial end and the two free ends, substantially the entirety of the flexible wall portion being unsupported by any underlying metallic framework prior to deployment in the blood vessel; and a plurality of hooking fasteners configured to connect the stent to the bifurcated graft at a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart locations to achieve a non-abutting connection with a gap between the first axial end of the bifurcated graft and the second axial end of the stent; each hooking fastener comprising an axially projecting extension from a mounting point on at least one of the graft or the stent, each axially projecting extension further comprising a radially projecting extension remote from the mounting point; and wherein the plurality of circumferentially spaced apart hooking fasteners securely maintains the gap between the stent and the bifurcated graft without overlap to enable a smaller cross-section than a connection with overlap so that the assembly can be introduced more easily into the blood vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 54.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.125
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15440073', '13933522', '12844073', '14706185', '09900241']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8486238757274938
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6086476132670149
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8246262494814459
- Mean Citation Score: 548.8252160000002
- Max Citation Score: 608.5154
- Similarity Product: 534.5382607713224

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

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