PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16433909
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "041000"]

Abstract:
A method for reshaping a nasal airway in a patient involves advancing an inflatable balloon of a reshaping device in an uninflated configuration into a nostril of the patient and between a nasal septum and a lateral wall of the nasal airway. The method then involves inflating the inflatable balloon to an inflated configuration to cause the inflatable balloon to contact nasal mucosa covering the nasal septum and the lateral wall, delivering energy from an energy delivery member attached to or inside of the inflatable balloon, and removing the reshaping device from the nasal airway.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising determining that the patient suffers from poor nasal airflow, wherein the method improves the patient's nasal airflow or the patient's perception of nasal airflow.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15217
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15272007', '14319087', '15596455', '14540050', '13495844']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.819156557283634
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5432873556063134
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.791569637115902
- Mean Citation Score: 352.2863900000001
- Max Citation Score: 359.56024
- Similarity Product: 263.69388868412017

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