PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15955943
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["601", "003000"]

Abstract:
A device including a focused ultrasound probe, a first balloon, and a second balloon. The first balloon can be located at least partially inside the second balloon. The inner balloon can be configured to act as a fluid interface, a mechanism for cooling, and a mechanism for changing tissue depth of a focal point of the probe. The second balloon can be filed with a thermosensitive hydrogel configured to turn from a fluid at room temperature to a gel at physiologic temperatures. The first and second balloons can be configured to create a fluid interface between the probe and targeted tissue of a patient.

Claim (Index 15):
A system for delivering ultrasound therapy, the system comprising:\n a focused ultrasound probe including a transducer, the transducer including at least one therapy crystal configured to deliver thermal energy to targeted tissue of a patient; a balloon complex including a first balloon, a second balloon and a neck, the first balloon being located at least partially inside the second balloon and surrounding the transducer, the neck being located outside of the first and second balloons, the first balloon containing a first fluid, the first fluid being a non-gaseous fluid, the second balloon containing a second fluid, the second fluid being a thermosensitive hydrogel configured to transform from a fluid at room temperature to a gel at a predetermined higher temperature, the second fluid being different from the first fluid, the first balloon being expandable to form an elliptical or circular shape having a convex exterior surface without any concave portions, the first and second balloons creating a fluid interface between the probe and targeted tissue of the patient, the second fluid immobilizing (i) the first balloon relative to the second balloon and (ii) the second balloon relative to the patient, the neck including a collar with a flared outer surface configured to prevent the balloon complex from being pushed entirely into an orifice of the patent; and at least one port including tubing extending from an interior of the second balloon to an exterior of the second balloon, the at least one port allowing (i) air to be removed from the second balloon and (ii) non-gaseous fluid to be injected into or removed from the second balloon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09259
- Patent Class: 601.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14938995', '12648797', '13478825', '11871219', '13681311']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6425795949550773
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.508244604281494
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.629146095887719
- Mean Citation Score: 210.56159
- Max Citation Score: 322.32794
- Similarity Product: 256.123724757396

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

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