PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903619
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["623", "001160"]

Abstract:
A method of treating a heart of a patient is provided, including implanting a first tissue anchor in cardiac tissue of the patient, the first tissue anchor attached to one or more tethers that are fixed to a coupling element. A second tissue anchor is implanted in the patient. The coupling element is coupled to a first coupling site of the second tissue anchor, thereby coupling the first tissue anchor to the second tissue anchor via the one or more tethers. Thereafter, after allowing at least 24 hours for tissue growth on the first tissue anchor to strengthen anchoring of the first tissue anchor in the cardiac tissue, tension is increased between the first and the second tissue anchors by decoupling the coupling element from the first coupling site and coupling the coupling element to a second coupling site of the second tissue anchor. Other embodiments are also described.

Claim (Index 9):
The method according to  claim 7 , wherein the second tissue anchor comprises hooks at the first and the second coupling sites, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60656
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15891664', '15147599', '15031069', '15104467', '15251262']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8170681240001973
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4910456810922075
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7844658797093983
- Mean Citation Score: 260.995652
- Max Citation Score: 297.61002
- Similarity Product: 236.28771231446743

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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