PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["623", "002110"]

Abstract:
An assembly for delivering a prosthetic heart valve to a native heart valve is disclosed. The assembly includes a self-expanding prosthetic heart valve formed with an expandable metallic stent and a flexible valvular structure. The assembly also includes a delivery apparatus having a delivery sleeve. The delivery sleeve includes a selectively steerable section and a distal portion for retaining the prosthetic heart valve in a compressed state. A handle is coupled to a proximal end of the delivery sleeve and a pull wire extends from the handle to the steerable section of the delivery sleeve. The handle preferably includes a rotatable portion for actuating the pull wire and thereby selectively controlling a curvature of the steerable section during advancement through the patient's vasculature. In preferred embodiments, the steerable section includes a flexible metallic tubular portion formed with a plurality of circumferentially extending openings.

Claim (Index 12):
A medical assembly, comprising:\n a tube portion and a cap portion; wherein the cap portion is coupled to a proximal end portion of the tube portion; wherein the tube portion has an inner lumen configured to receive a distal end portion of a delivery system and a prosthetic valve retained in a radially compressed state over an inflatable balloon of the delivery system, the inner lumen having a distal opening located at a distal end of the tube portion; wherein the tube portion is configured to be inserted into an introducer which is inserted into a blood vessel of a patient; and wherein the tube portion is so sized that insertion of the tube portion into the introducer can cause the distal end of the tube portion pass through one or more valves of the introducer and into an inner passageway of the introducer, thereby allowing the prosthetic valve and the delivery system to be advanced outwardly through the distal opening of the inner lumen of the tube portion into the inner passageway of the introducer and then outwardly through a distal opening of the introducer into the blood vessel without contacting the one or more valves of the introducer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16200458', '16200431', '16200366', '14704866', '13774848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8597988766795871
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6094318728718942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8347621762988178
- Mean Citation Score: 518.612386
- Max Citation Score: 562.9432
- Similarity Product: 481.47045973253256

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

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