PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
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 1):
A medical assembly, comprising:\n a loader comprising a tube portion configured to receive a distal end portion of a delivery system and a prosthetic valve retained in a radially compressed state over an inflatable balloon of the delivery system; and an introducer comprising a sleeve and a housing attached to a proximal end of the sleeve; wherein the sleeve is configured to be inserted into a blood vessel of a patient so that an inner passageway of the sleeve is in fluid communication with the blood vessel and the housing is located outside the blood vessel; wherein the tube portion of the loader is configured to pass through the housing and into the inner passageway of the sleeve so that the delivery system and the prosthetic valve can be advanced from the tube portion through the inner passageway of the sleeve and into the blood vessel after the sleeve is inserted into the blood vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16200458', '16200431', '16200366', '14704866', '13774848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.859047909049574
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6132116075274272
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8344642788973593
- Mean Citation Score: 518.612386
- Max Citation Score: 562.9432
- Similarity Product: 496.55534475898753

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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