PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987131
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["600", "249000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for assembling an illuminated infusion cannula involving an optical fiber support assembly with an optical fiber support tube and a positioning insert that couples within a cannula and that can position an optical fiber in the tip of the cannula while supporting substantially laminar and minimally-restricted fluid flow through the cannula.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of assembling an illuminated infusion cannula comprising:\n coupling an infusion fluid outlet tube onto a Y-shaped fitting having a hollow body, a first attachment point for coupling with an optical fiber illumination assembly, a second attachment point for coupling with the infusion fluid outlet tube, and a third attachment point for coupling with an infusion fluid inlet tube, wherein the first attachment point and the second attachment point are configured substantially coaxially; aligning an optical fiber illumination assembly with the first attachment point; inserting an optical fiber of the optical fiber illumination assembly through the first attachment point, the hollow body, the second attachment point, and the infusion fluid outlet tube; coupling a proximal end of an optical fiber support tube with a distal end of an attachment tube; coupling a positioning insert with the distal end of the optical fiber support tube, the positioning insert having a shape configured to fit tightly within the flared proximal body of a cannula and having a passage disposed through an axial length of the positioning insert; inserting the optical fiber into the attachment tube; sliding the attachment tube around the optical fiber, into the infusion fluid outlet tube, through the second attachment point, through the hollow body, through the first attachment point, and into the optical fiber illumination assembly, wherein sliding the attachment tube further involves: pulling the optical fiber support tube over the optical fiber and through infusion outlet tube towards the first attachment point, and threading the distal tip of optical fiber through the passage disposed through an axial length of the positioning insert; threading the distal tip of optical fiber into a thin distal tip of a cannula and housing the positioning insert within a flared proximal body of the cannula; sliding the cannula into a distal end of the infusion fluid outlet tube, thereby further sliding the optical fiber support tube towards the first attachment point and the attachment tube through the first attachment point; securing the attachment tube to the first attachment point; and securing the optical fiber assembly with the first attachment point.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48649
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14612576', '15139799', '11612234', '14155113', '15061754']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4488383913332775
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5036693078496104
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4543214829849108
- Mean Citation Score: 242.888766
- Max Citation Score: 280.21725
- Similarity Product: 205.35051830944417

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