PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16202928
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["623", "001150"]

Abstract:
A method of crimping an implantable prosthetic valve can include placing protective material over at least a portion of the implantable prosthetic valve. The protective material can be configured to occupy space between open cells of a frame of the implantable prosthetic valve to prevent damage to a leaflet structure of the implantable prosthetic valve. The method can also include crimping the implantable prosthetic valve with the protective material on the implantable prosthetic valve, and removing the protective material from between the frame and the leaflet structure of the implantable prosthetic valve.

Claim (Index 1):
An assembly comprising:\n a delivery catheter comprising a balloon; and an implantable prosthetic heart valve that is radially collapsible to a collapsed configuration and radially expandable to an expanded configuration, the prosthetic heart valve comprising:\n a radially collapsible and expandable annular frame, the frame having three commissure attachment portions and at least three rows of circumferentially extending rows of angled struts including a first row of angled struts defining an inflow end of the frame, a second row of angled struts defining an outflow end of the frame, and a third row of angled struts positioned axially between the first and second rows of angled struts along a length of the frame, wherein the second and third rows of angled struts form an upper row of closed cells of the frame defining openings in the frame; \n a leaflet structure comprising three leaflets, each leaflet having an upper edge, a curved lower edge and two side flaps, wherein each side flap is connected to an adjacent side flap of another leaflet to form commissures of the leaflet structure, each commissure being attached to one of the commissure attachment portions; and \n an annular skirt member positioned between the annular frame and the leaflet structure, the curved lower edge of each leaflet sutured to the skirt member along a scalloped line, wherein the annular skirt covers the entire extent of the inner surface of the frame except for the openings in the upper row of cells; \n wherein the prosthetic valve can be radially crimped to the collapsed configuration around the balloon for delivery into a patient's body and radially expanded to the expanded configuration with the balloon inside the patient's body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34146
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16202967', '13167549', '16202980', '12480603', '15984716']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8505211844308037
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6241577735325485
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8278848433409782
- Mean Citation Score: 567.3714899999999
- Max Citation Score: 605.6862
- Similarity Product: 579.7126797607183

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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