PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032797
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["600", "425000"]

Abstract:
An integrated therapeutic and imaging device that uses at least two balloons to provide a guarded zone that can be evacuated and replaced with a fluid that is sufficiently clear to permit optical coherence tomography (or even high resolution ultrasound) imaging that would otherwise be of poor quality or impossible. Methods of making and operating the imaging device to obtain clear, high quality images, as well as treating a patient's tissue with the device within a living body in association with obtaining an image of the patient's tissue, are included.

Claim (Index 2):
A catheter, comprising:\n a flexible elongate body configured to be positioned within a patient, the flexible elongate body comprising a proximal portion, a distal portion, and an outer profile; a first balloon coupled to the distal portion; a second balloon coupled to the distal portion, wherein the second balloon is spaced from the first balloon along a length of the flexible elongate body; an operative element coupled to the distal portion and positioned along the length of the flexible elongate body between the first balloon and the second balloon; wherein the flexible elongate body further comprises:\n a guarded zone positioned between the first balloon and the second balloon, wherein the operative element is aligned with the guarded zone along the length of the flexible elongate body to image, treat, and/or diagnose a tissue zone adjacent to the guarded zone; \n an operative lumen extending within the outer profile from the proximal portion to the operative element and configured to facilitate imaging, treatment, and/or diagnosis of the tissue zone by the operative element; and \n a guidewire lumen extending within the outer profile and adjacent to the operative lumen along at least a portion of the length of the flexible elongate body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47761
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14135359', '15614460', '15469085', '15369426', '15600670']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4895090885879881
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5152335161199538
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4920815313411846
- Mean Citation Score: 242.78036
- Max Citation Score: 335.99304
- Similarity Product: 263.6825490606308

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

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