PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975031
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["427", "002100"]

Abstract:
A balloon coating method and apparatus are disclosed which can perform coating while freely controlling, for example, the thickness of a coating layer and/or the morphological form of a drug. The method includes pulling a distal tip of the balloon in an axial direction of the balloon to straighten a bend of the balloon; rotating the balloon about an axis of the balloon; and coating the outer surface of the balloon with a coating liquid.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for forming a coating layer on an outer surface of a balloon of a balloon catheter, the method comprising:\n clamping a distal-side end portion of the balloon in a balloon coating apparatus; pulling the distal-end side portion of the balloon in an axial direction of the balloon to straighten a bend of the balloon; rotating the balloon about an axis of the balloon; maintaining the balloon in a bend-straightened state; and coating the outer surface of the balloon with a coating liquid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7234
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15188266', '15136397', '15873282', '15789592', '15136435']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8157874751792386
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5293232880073186
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7871410564620466
- Mean Citation Score: 297.807854
- Max Citation Score: 355.89462000000015
- Similarity Product: 337.0397240356422

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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