PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864845
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["623", "001130"]

Abstract:
A stent/graft assembly includes a tubular graft connected in substantially end-to-end relationship with a generally tubular stent.

Claim (Index 17):
An endovascular stent/graft assembly for repairing a section of a blood vessel that has an aneurysm, the blood vessel having first and second relatively healthy sections adjacent and on opposite ends of the aneurysm, the assembly comprising:\n a substantially tubular stent having opposite first and second axial ends; a graft having first axial and second axial ends and a flexible wall portion there between, substantially the entirety of the flexible wall portion being unsupported by any metallic framework; an annular member incorporated into the graft in proximity to its first axial end and configured to keep the graft open during deployment without encircling the stent; a plurality of axial extensions projecting from at least one of the stent or the graft toward the other at a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart locations; and a hook having a curved or angular surface projecting radially from each axial extension and configured to connect the graft and the second axial end of the stent at the plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart axial projections to maintain a substantially end-to-end axial non-abutting connection without overlap between the stent and the graft; and wherein the connection without overlap enables a smaller cross-section than a connection with overlap so that the assembly can be introduced more easily into the blood vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 54.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.125
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15440073', '13933522', '12844073', '14706185', '09900241']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8480284067061827
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6115596085648779
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8243815268920522
- Mean Citation Score: 548.8252160000002
- Max Citation Score: 608.5154
- Similarity Product: 544.6694384106636

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

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