PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956019
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "016000"]

Abstract:
A ventricular assist system includes a ventricular assist device (“VAD”) and an expandable stent. The VAD may include a pump and an inlet element defining an inlet opening communicating with the pump, the inlet element being adapted for positioning with the inlet opening disposed within a ventricle of a heart when the system is in an operative condition. The expandable stent may be adapted for positioning within the ventricle when the system is in the operative condition. The pump may be operated to draw blood from the ventricle and return the blood to the artery, and a wall of the ventricle may be held away from the inlet opening with the stent. The stent may be passed through a channel in the ventricular assist device while the stent is in a collapsed condition.

Claim (Index 30):
A method of implanting a ventricular assist device in a subject comprising, the method comprising:\n implanting the ventricular assist device within the subject; positioning an inlet opening of an inlet element of the ventricular assist device within a ventricle of the heart, the inlet opening communicating with a pump; positioning an outflow cannula of the ventricular assist device to communicate with the pump and with an artery; positioning a stent in the ventricle at least partially upstream of the inlet opening; positioning a mounting on a proximal end of the ventricular assist device so that the mounting and a channel within the mounting extend across a wall of the ventricle; passing the stent through a valve positioned at least partially within the channel of the mounting while the stent is in a collapsed condition.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44068
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14339801', '14471783', '15497670', '12322746', '14867696']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4919259321165262
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5660747780617669
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4993408167110503
- Mean Citation Score: 333.557046
- Max Citation Score: 459.71582
- Similarity Product: 451.233148885504

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

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