PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15747538
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["600", "585000"]

Abstract:
Sliding friction between a catheter and a guiding core is reduced by a rotating inner catheter member ( 12 ), introduced between the guiding core ( 13 ) and an outer catheter member ( 11 ). The inner catheter member ( 12 ) is rotated in the outer catheter member ( 11 ) by a motor ( 14 ), which may be controlled by a control unit ( 2 ). A lower catheter friction with respect to the guidewire allows the physician improved assessment of the forces resulting from collisions of the outer catheter member ( 11 ) and the vascular wall.

Claim (Index 1):
A catheter assembly comprising:\n a flexible outer catheter member having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending from the proximal end to the distal end; a flexible inner catheter member disposed rotatable within the lumen of the outer catheter member, the inner catheter member having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending from the proximal end to the distal end; a motor coupled to the inner catheter member; wherein the lumen of the inner catheter member is adapted to receive a movable guidewire; wherein the motor is configured to rotate the inner catheter member with respect to the outer catheter member at a rotational speed below 500 rpm, such as to reduce sliding friction of the guidewire with respect to the outer catheter member when the guidewire is received by the lumen of the inner catheter member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98148
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13149464', '15252502', '14562014', '11559043', '11751443']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5204278552073415
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4783260625534907
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5162176759419563
- Mean Citation Score: 218.625802
- Max Citation Score: 222.28136
- Similarity Product: 165.13744934049132

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

Dataset: test