PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16168176
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["604", "093010"]

Abstract:
Systems are disclosed for facilitating intranasal treatment of a patient's sphenopalatine/pterygopalatine recess. Likewise the instant system is effective for addressing acute pain conditions, and is refined enough to be performed by physician's assistants, nurses, and other well-trained practitioners. Apparatus involved includes a sheath hub, a catheter hub, an arresting element, and an engagement element in embodiments. Engagement between the arresting element and the engagement element prevents rotation of the sheath hub with respect to the catheter hub.

Claim (Index 42):
A method of facilitating intranasal treatment within a patient's sphenopalatine/pterygopalatine recess, the method comprising:\n providing an apparatus comprising a sheath hub, a catheter hub, a sheath and a catheter having an intrinsic curvature, the sheath coupled to and extending from a distal end portion of the sheath hub, and the catheter coupled to and extending from a distal end portion of the catheter hub, wherein the catheter hub is constructed to be slidably received within the sheath hub to retract and advance the catheter in a lateral direction; repositioning the catheter hub into an extended position relative to the sheath hub, wherein the intrinsic curvature of the catheter is straightened within the sheath when the catheter hub is in the extended position; inserting an introduction end of the sheath into the patient's naval cavity; advancing the introduction end of the sheath to an anatomical location of the patient's naval cavity proximal to a target tissue site within a sphenopalatine/pterygopalatine recess; repositioning the catheter hub into an inserted position relative to the sheath hub, wherein the intrinsic curvature of the catheter is revealed when the catheter hub is in the inserted position, and wherein the intrinsic curvature of the catheter provides access to the target tissue site within the sphenopalatine/pterygopalatine recess; and delivering a medical treatment via the catheter to the target tissue site within the sphenopalatine/pterygopalatine recess.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58929
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13371288', '13629997', '15974179', '15412377', '15803335']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.822658048167358
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6546095444166584
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8058531977922881
- Mean Citation Score: 430.626836
- Max Citation Score: 690.9492
- Similarity Product: 612.2553948082924

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

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