PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968612
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["623", "002110"]

Abstract:
Devices for treating mitral valve regurgitation, including a distal expandable anchor, a proximal expandable anchor, and a fixed length connecting member extending from the proximal expandable anchor to the distal expandable anchor, where at least one of the proximal and distal anchors includes first and second arm segments that extend from one end of the device toward the connecting member and the other anchor when in a collapsed delivery configuration, and where the at least one of the proximal and distal anchors that comprises the first and second arm segments has an expanded configuration in which the first and second arm segments extend radially outwardly such that the first and second arm segments extend away from one another toward the connector, and meet one another at a location axially spaced from the end of the device.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of orienting an intraluminal cardiac device within the coronary sinus for the treatment of mitral valve regurgitation, the method comprising:\n advancing an intraluminal cardiac device in a collapsed configuration into a coronary sinus, the intraluminal cardiac device comprising a first expandable anchor, a second expandable anchor, and a connecting member extending between the first and second expandable anchors; expanding the first expandable anchor within the coronary sinus; anchoring the first expandable anchor against movement in the coronary sinus; deploying the connecting member; pulling proximally on the intraluminal cardiac device so as to change the geometry of the mitral valve annulus and bring the leaflets of the mitral valve closer together, thereby reducing undesirable blood flow regurgitation back through the mitral valve during the heart cycle; expanding the second expandable anchor within the coronary sinus; and anchoring the second expandable anchor against movement in the coronary sinus after the pulling step, wherein expanding the first expandable anchor comprises moving an apex of the first expandable anchor, relative to the connecting member, radially outward and away from the connecting member and away from the inside curve of the coronary sinus, and wherein expanding the second expandable anchor comprises moving an apex of the second expandable anchor, relative to the connecting member, radially outward and away from the connecting member and away from the inside curve of the coronary sinus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38333
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15261572', '15261594', '15230060', '15261549', '15261628']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7999205895455036
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5455000084130972
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.774478531432263
- Mean Citation Score: 403.002482
- Max Citation Score: 424.29504
- Similarity Product: 415.543147544632

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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