PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16166309
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["623", "002110"]

Abstract:
A heart valve annulus repair device having a tissue engaging member and a plurality of anchors. The tissue engaging member includes a loop of wire. Each of the anchors has a pointy front end and a back end and a slot that runs in a front-to-back direction. The anchors are distributed about the loop of wire with the front ends of the plurality of anchors facing the heart valve annulus and with the loop of wire passing through the slots. The device further includes means for implanting the anchors into the heart valve annulus tissue so that the tissue engaging member becomes affixed to the heart valve annulus.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the interaction between the loop of material, the leaflets of the native valve, and the prosthetic valve that secures the prosthetic valve in place comprises friction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21569
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14364060', '15977263', '14895711', '14011598', '14019332']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8278187669476355
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5202239392101724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7970592841738892
- Mean Citation Score: 348.206054
- Max Citation Score: 388.27777
- Similarity Product: 249.13948074605585

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