PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["623", "001150"]

Abstract:
A stent includes a high radial force segment and a highly flexible segment, where the diameters of the high radial force segment and the highly flexible segment are different. For example, the stent may be formed from a tube having varying diameters as it extends distally combined with increased strut density to achieve increased flexibility distally while reducing loss of radial stiffness. The stent may further be placed with an additional stent segment, where the additional stent segment has a radial force similar to the radial force of the highly flexible force segment.

Claim (Index 24):
A device comprising:\n an elongate tubular wall structure defining a lumen extending therethrough, the elongate tubular wall structure having a firm segment, a transition segment and a flexible segment, wherein the transition segment extends between the firm segment and flexible segment; wherein the firm segment has a first thickness, the transition segment has a second thickness and the flexible segment has a third thickness; wherein the first thickness is greater than the third thickness and contributes to a radial stiffness of the firm segment being greater than a radial stiffness of the flexible segment; wherein a diameter D 1  of a tube comprising the elongate tubular structure and corresponding to the firm segment is constant over a length of the firm segment, a diameter D 2  of the tube corresponding to the transition segment is constant over a length of the transition segment; and a diameter D 3  of the tube corresponding to the flexible segment is constant over a length of the flexible segment and D 1 >D 2 >D 3 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94118
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15861465', '15712704', '12939894', '15256873', '13100132']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8237256641108579
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5293838992703714
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7942914876268092
- Mean Citation Score: 330.34993000000014
- Max Citation Score: 428.0917
- Similarity Product: 310.33533736072184

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

Dataset: test