PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873659
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["623", "001130"]

Abstract:
The present embodiments describe an endograft having at least one fenestration, at least one cuff support structure, and at least one branch stent, and methods for deploying the same. In one example, the system comprises a branch stent within the cuff support structure, where upon expansion of the branch stent, the cuff support structure expands from a first state to a second state and has a radially inward bias towards the smaller first state. In another example, the system comprises a cuff support structure having at least one barb, where the barb is flush with the cuff support structure in a first state, and where upon expansion of the cuff support structure to a second state, the barb deflects radially inward. Both the radially inward bias of the cuff and radially inward deflection of the barb may facilitate an interference fit between the cuff and the branch stent.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of deploying an endograft, comprising:\n guiding an endograft towards an anatomical target; cannulating at least one peripheral vessel with a branch stent that extends through a cuff support structure attached to the endograft; and expanding the branch stent such that a proximal portion of the branch stent forms an interference fit with an inner surface of the cuff support structure, wherein the cuff support structure has a radially inward bias towards a smaller diameter, and wherein the cuff further comprises at least one barb that deflects into a lumen of the cuff upon expansion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14982539', '12765516', '12770536', '11337303', '14035574']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7974691957523716
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.505020412000188
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7682243173771532
- Mean Citation Score: 310.401922
- Max Citation Score: 328.19315
- Similarity Product: 211.69382823869884

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