PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16352219
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["128", "203120"]

Abstract:
Breathable medical circuit components and materials and methods for forming these components incorporate breathable foamed materials that are permeable to water vapor and substantially impermeable to liquid water and the bulk flow of gases. The materials and methods can be incorporated into a variety of components, including tubes, Y-connectors, catheter mounts, and patient interfaces and are suitable for use in a variety of medical circuits, including insufflation, anesthesia, and breathing circuits.

Claim (Index 1):
An expiratory limb for a breathing circuit for carrying humidified gases exhaled by a patient, the expiratory limb comprising:\n an inlet and an outlet; and a foamed-polymer conduit that is permeable to water vapor and substantially impermeable to liquid water and bulk flow of gas, the foamed-polymer conduit enabling flow of humidified gases from the inlet to the outlet within a space enclosed by the foamed-polymer conduit, wherein the foamed-polymer conduit is extruded and corrugated, the foamed-polymer conduit comprises a solid thermoplastic elastomer material and cell voids distributed throughout the solid material, the foamed-polymer conduit has a void fraction greater than 25%, and the foamed-polymer conduit transmits water vapor from the humidified gases within the conduit to the surrounding ambient air through a wall forming at least a portion of the foamed polymer conduit, thereby reducing the build up of condensation within the conduit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6
- Patent Class: 128.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13517925', '13821674', '14777440', '14777438', '15816965']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5773073179401322
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6398525834634173
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5835618444924607
- Mean Citation Score: 301.100696
- Max Citation Score: 617.9933
- Similarity Product: 593.9361107609391

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

Dataset: test