PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899858
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["623", "002110"]

Abstract:
A tool is configured for transluminal delivery of an implant. The tool has a proximal part and a distal part, and comprises a shaft, a nosepiece, a sheath, and a balloon. The nosepiece is fixed to the shaft, and is arranged with respect to the implant such that the implant extends proximally away from the nosepiece and over the shaft. The sheath houses the implant. The balloon is disposed at the distal part of the tool, and is in fluid communication with the proximal part of the tool. When maximally inflated, the balloon has (i) a widest part that has an inflated diameter that is less than the diameter of the sheath or at most 10 percent greater than the diameter of the sheath, and (ii) a tapered portion that tapers longitudinally away from the widest part and from the nosepiece.

Claim (Index 8):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the implant (i) is constrainable, by a constraining force, in a compressed state in which the implant has a compressed diameter, and (ii) has an expanded state into which the implant automatically transitions upon removal of the constraining force, and in which the implant has an expanded diameter, and the maximally-inflated diameter of the balloon is smaller than the expanded diameter of the implant.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52381
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15886517', '15140881', '11739743', '12857467', '13468667']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7947120045581821
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5116515370369459
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7664059578060585
- Mean Citation Score: 254.766726
- Max Citation Score: 350.06015
- Similarity Product: 258.0033820454061

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

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