PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933121
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["427", "002100"]

Abstract:
A medical device for surgical implantation adapted to serve as a drug delivery system has one or more drug loaded holes with barrier layers to control release or elution of the drug from the holes or to control inward diffusion of fluids into the holes. The barrier layers are non-polymers and are formed from the drug material itself by beam processing. The holes may be in patterns to spatially control drug delivery. Flexible options permit combinations of drugs, variable drug dose per hole, multiple drugs per hole, temporal control of drug release sequence and profile. Methods for forming such a drug delivery system are also disclosed. Gas cluster ion beam and/or accelerated Neutral Beam derived from an accelerated gas cluster ion beam may be employed.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising the steps, prior to the loading step:\n forming a second beam; and second irradiating at least a portion of the one or more holes of the medical device with the second beam to: clean the at least a portion of the holes; and/or remove a sharp or burred edge on the at least a portion of the holes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6962
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13591837', '15624381', '14496412', '14571533', '14466242']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.800779796814751
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5753162753778341
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7782334446710593
- Mean Citation Score: 382.74464600000016
- Max Citation Score: 437.65338
- Similarity Product: 415.26893822107314

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

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