PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16160425
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["118", "200000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments herein include apparatus and methods for coating medical devices. In an embodiment, a coating apparatus is included having a coating application unit including a movement restriction structure, a fluid applicator having a lengthwise major axis, a fluid distribution bar having a body angled with respect to the major lengthwise axis of the fluid applicator between 0 and 20 degrees, a rotation mechanism and an axial motion mechanism. The axial motion mechanism configured to cause movement of at least one of the coating application unit and the rotation mechanism with respect to one another. Other embodiments are also included herein.

Claim (Index 7):
The coating apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the fluid distribution bar includes a tail portion that is angled with respect to the lengthwise major axis of the fluid applicator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86207
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15783554', '14272204', '15061234', '13906599', '14063124']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8582093022620199
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5527613479746539
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8276645068332833
- Mean Citation Score: 324.579884
- Max Citation Score: 422.1517
- Similarity Product: 380.50050553343294

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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