PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017239
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "109000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for treating target tissues within the ears are disclosed. Systems include a device including a cutting edge configured to form an incision in a tympanic membrane, a pressure equalization tube positionable within an interior space of the device in a compressed configuration and configured to expand into an expanded configuration when released from the interior space, and an elongate positioning element configured to release the pressure equalization tube from the interior space such that the pressure equalization tube is deployed in the incision formed in the tympanic membrane.

Claim (Index 3):
The system of  claim 2 , wherein the pressure equalization tube further includes a tubular portion extending from the distal portion,\n the distal portion having an outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of the tubular portion when the pressure equalization tube is in the expanded configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82692
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14221470', '13164993', '11749733', '13647562', '11749726']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8774822151606322
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6076772739140696
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.850501721035976
- Mean Citation Score: 526.801592
- Max Citation Score: 548.39716
- Similarity Product: 384.6932523764801

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

Dataset: test