PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200366
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
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 6):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the distal end portion of the pull wire is fixed to the steerable distal end portion at a location proximal to the prosthetic valve such that the prosthetic valve remains straight when the pull wire is actuated to change the curvature of the steerable distal end portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12855378', '16200431', '13774848', '16200458', '11152288']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.892660087828882
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6164491936116893
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8650389984071627
- Mean Citation Score: 571.065026
- Max Citation Score: 587.43896
- Similarity Product: 575.1581528987837

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

Dataset: test