PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905421
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["602", "053000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods and devices for skin tightening after incising or excising tissue portions from a subject. Exemplary methods and devices include tunable dressings having an adhesive layer and a regulatable layer or an unstretched layer that responds to one or more external stimuli to contract or expand the dressing, where the contraction or expansion can be uniform or non-uniform.

Claim (Index 41):
A method of skin tightening comprising:\n (i) producing a plurality of excised tissue portions in a region of skin tissue using a system comprising,\n a plurality of hollow tubes configured to contact a surface of the skin to generate holes in the skin tissue by excising portions of the skin tissue, which hollow tubes have an inner diameter that is less than about 0.5 mm; \n a first actuator configured to rotate and/or translate the plurality of tubes relative to the skin; and \n a suction or pressure system to facilitate removal of tissue portions from the plurality of hollow tubes; and \n (ii) affixing to the skin region a device that provides contraction or expansion of said skin region in one or more directions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.34694
- Patent Class: 602.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14764866', '14910767', '13844019', '13844154', '15253525']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5207858861128822
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5592645898154857
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5246337564831426
- Mean Citation Score: 187.750226
- Max Citation Score: 398.99893
- Similarity Product: 264.43311850530387

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

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