PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007974
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["623", "001140"]

Abstract:
A method for stabilizing a cardiac valve annulus is provided. The method includes intravascularly delivering a prosthesis to a region of a cardiac valve, expanding the prosthesis to secure the prosthesis to the region of the cardiac valve, and reducing the inner diameter of the prosthesis to form the region of the cardiac valve into a predefined shape.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for reshaping a valve annulus comprising:\n advancing a distal tip of a delivery catheter comprising a delivery sheath containing a prosthesis in a compressed configuration to the valve annulus, the prosthesis including a ring and a plurality of anchor members extending from one end of the ring; retracting the delivery sheath from the prosthesis, wherein when the delivery sheath is retracted, the ring self-expands from the compressed configuration to a pre-deployment configuration; expanding an inner diameter of the ring to a deployment configuration to drive the anchor members into the valve annulus to secure the prosthesis to the valve annulus; and reducing the inner diameter of the ring to a resting configuration to reshape the valve annulus, wherein the ring is formed of a shape memory material, wherein the step of reducing the inner diameter of the ring to the resting configuration is achieved by the ring self-contracting to the resting configuration due to the shape-memory material, wherein the ring in the pre-deployment configuration has a smaller diameter than the ring in the deployment configuration and a larger diameter than the ring in the compressed configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15212323', '14047345', '11739526', '11247724', '14195576']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8351426634847653
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.563660296182692
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.807994426754558
- Mean Citation Score: 405.708792
- Max Citation Score: 508.92346
- Similarity Product: 428.4558918846786

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

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