PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059522
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["424", "422000"]

Abstract:
A medical device, comprising: an array of microneedles, and a coating disposed on the microneedles, wherein the coating comprises: a local anesthetic selected from the group consisting of lidocaine, prilocaine, and a combination thereof; and a local anesthetic dose-extending component selected from the group consisting of tetracaine, ropivacaine, bupivacaine, procaine and a combination thereof; wherein the local anesthetic is present in an amount of at least 1 wt-% based upon total weight of solids in the coating, and wherein the local anesthetic and dose-extending component are in a non-eutectic weight ratio; a medical device, comprising an array of dissolvable microneedles, the microneedles comprising: a dissolvable matrix material; at least 1 wt-% of a local anesthetic selected from the group consisting of lidocaine, prilocaine, and a combination thereof; and a local anesthetic dose-extending component selected from the group consisting of tetracaine, ropivacaine, bupivacaine, procaine and a combination thereof; wherein the local anesthetic and dose-extending component are in a non-eutectic weight ratio, and wherein wt-% is based upon total weight of solids in all portions of the dissolvable microneedles which contain the local anesthetic; a method of extending a topically delivered local anesthetic dose in mammalian tissue using the devices; and methods of making the devices are provided.

Claim (Index 24):
The device of  claim 16 , wherein the microneedles have a height of 200 to 1000 micrometers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.30556
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15766469', '15480813', '14361802', '14361787', '14398375']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7507212469707738
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.50618143732549
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7262672660062455
- Mean Citation Score: 222.837652
- Max Citation Score: 228.98131
- Similarity Product: 142.23982437286378

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

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