PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007725
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["600", "347000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates generally to variable stiffness transcutaneous medical devices including a distal portion designed to be more flexible than a proximal portion. The variable stiffness can be provided by a variable pitch in one or more wires of the device, a variable cross-section in one or more wires of the device, and/or a variable hardening and/or softening in one or more wires of the device.

Claim (Index 1):
A transcutaneous analyte sensor, the sensor comprising an elongated flexible portion, wherein the elongated flexible portion has a variable stiffness along at least a portion of its length.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86842
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11077759', '12105227', '11077883', '13077884', '13086160']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.546858781157169
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5193240669118158
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5441053097326337
- Mean Citation Score: 259.42771600000003
- Max Citation Score: 358.5228600000001
- Similarity Product: 274.79174360155827

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