PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938969
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["600", "219000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to the field of tissue dissection. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to medical devices that lift and retract tissue during a dissection procedure to improve visualization of the target tissue and mitigate obstructions for dissection tools. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices that transition from a constrained to an unconstrained bowed configuration to immobilize and retract the dissected portion of target tissue during a dissection procedure.

Claim (Index 1):
A tissue retractor system, comprising:\n a delivery catheter comprising:\n an inner tubular element with a lumen therethrough; \n an outer sheath disposed about the inner tubular element, the outer sheath and inner tubular element slidingly disposed relative to each other; and \n an elongate flexible element configured to transition between a first configuration when constrained and a second bowed configuration when unconstrained, the elongate flexible element disposed within the lumen of the inner tubular element, the elongate flexible element and inner tubular element slidingly disposed relative to each other and the outer sheath comprising:\n a distal end having an end width and configured to engage a first target tissue portion; \n a proximal end having an end width and configured to engage a second target tissue portion; \n a body portion having a body width connecting the distal end to the proximal end, wherein the body width is wider than the end width of the distal end and proximal end; and \n wherein the lumen has a cross-section that accommodates the body width and the end widths.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87805
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12543469', '15720208', '10955244', '15756729', '10955243']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5603014276330921
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4730064475931922
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5515719296291022
- Mean Citation Score: 245.804712
- Max Citation Score: 252.92726
- Similarity Product: 220.86984732200384

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