PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975031
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["427", "002100"]

Abstract:
A balloon coating method and apparatus are disclosed which can perform coating while freely controlling, for example, the thickness of a coating layer and/or the morphological form of a drug. The method includes pulling a distal tip of the balloon in an axial direction of the balloon to straighten a bend of the balloon; rotating the balloon about an axis of the balloon; and coating the outer surface of the balloon with a coating liquid.

Claim (Index 9):
The method according to  claim 8 , wherein the clamping of the distal tip of the balloon with the chuck further comprises:\n clamping the balloon from a radially outer side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7234
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15188266', '15136397', '15873282', '15789592', '15136435']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8334865631349385
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5335369262918338
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.803491599450628
- Mean Citation Score: 297.807854
- Max Citation Score: 355.89462000000015
- Similarity Product: 281.7700032558561

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