PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16184844
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["600", "105000"]

Abstract:
A medical introducer includes an elongated tubular member having a proximal end, a distal portion, and a central lumen extending from the proximal end to a distal port in the distal portion. A frame structure is coupled to the distal portion of the elongated tubular member, where frame structure supports the distal portion of the elongated tubular member in a tapered shape and alternatively in a non-tapered shape. The elongated tubular member may include a rigid outer tube and a rigid inner tube carried in an interior lumen of the outer tube. The distal portion is typically a reinforced elastomeric tubular extension of the outer tube, and the reinforced elastomeric tubular extension may have a conical shape.

Claim (Index 6):
The medical device of  claim 3 , wherein the elongated tubular member comprises an outer tube and an inner tube carried in an interior lumen of the outer tube, wherein the inner tube is configured to axially translate from (a) an axially retracted position wherein the frame structure is resiliently closed and the distal portion of the elongated tubular member is in its tapered shape to (b) an axially extended position wherein the frame structure is open and the distal portion is in its non-tapered shape.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45098
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14508856', '14053434', '15240546', '13745439', '15291655']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5408329835322463
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4859812027264061
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5353478054516623
- Mean Citation Score: 232.844216
- Max Citation Score: 236.93658
- Similarity Product: 177.14328203851105

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

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