PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16151363
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["623", "002110"]

Abstract:
Described embodiments include apparatus ( 20 ) that includes an assembly of tubes ( 34 ), each one of the tubes being shaped to define a tube lumen ( 62 ). The apparatus further includes a plurality of tissue anchors ( 60 ), each one of the tissue anchors being disposed within a respective one of the tube lumens, an expandable annular structure ( 36 ), including a plurality of teeth ( 40 ), coupled to the assembly of tubes, and a plurality of control wires ( 38 ) coupled to the annular structure, configured to position the tubes for deployment of the tissue anchors from the tube lumens, by manipulating the annular structure. Other embodiments are also described.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of teeth comprise:\n a first annulus of teeth; and a second annulus of teeth coupled to, and angled radially inward with respect to, the first annulus of teeth.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13167476', '15474543', '13749153', '12437103', '13319030']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8164044521965462
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5045664738640694
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7852206543632986
- Mean Citation Score: 288.72620199999994
- Max Citation Score: 298.94196
- Similarity Product: 176.2085235391331

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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