PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16406983
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "045000"]

Abstract:
This document relates to devices and methods for the treatment of heart conditions. For example, this document provides devices and methods for treating heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, including diastolic heart failure, by performing a pericardial modification procedure.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for treating diastolic heart failure, the method comprising:\n identifying a patient having diastolic heart failure; and creating an opening in said patient's pericardial tissue or removing a portion of said patient's pericardial tissue, wherein said creating or said removing reduces pressure exerted by said pericardial tissue on said patient's heart.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.33333
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14773487', '15356200', '14406024', '14864697', '13107747']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7628582913640114
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5161568494940953
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7381881471770197
- Mean Citation Score: 265.355766
- Max Citation Score: 378.2692
- Similarity Product: 294.6202269569397

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