PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["623", "002110"]

Abstract:
An assembly for delivering a prosthetic heart valve to a native heart valve is disclosed. The assembly includes a self-expanding prosthetic heart valve formed with an expandable metallic stent and a flexible valvular structure. The assembly also includes a delivery apparatus having a delivery sleeve. The delivery sleeve includes a selectively steerable section and a distal portion for retaining the prosthetic heart valve in a compressed state. A handle is coupled to a proximal end of the delivery sleeve and a pull wire extends from the handle to the steerable section of the delivery sleeve. The handle preferably includes a rotatable portion for actuating the pull wire and thereby selectively controlling a curvature of the steerable section during advancement through the patient's vasculature. In preferred embodiments, the steerable section includes a flexible metallic tubular portion formed with a plurality of circumferentially extending openings.

Claim (Index 20):
A medical assembly, comprising:\n a loader comprising a tube portion and cap portion coupled to a proximal end portion of the tube portion, the cap portion having a larger diameter than the tube portion, the tube portion being configured to receive a distal end portion of a delivery system and a prosthetic valve retained in a radially compressed state over an inflatable balloon of the delivery system, and the cap portion having a cap opening so as to allow insertion of the distal end portion of the delivery system and the prosthetic valve retained thereon through the cap opening and into the tube portion; and an introducer comprising a sleeve and a housing attached to a proximal end of the sleeve, the sleeve being configured to be inserted into a blood vessel of a patient so that an inner passageway of the sleeve is in fluid communication with the blood vessel and the housing is located outside the blood vessel; wherein the introducer further comprises an end piece attached to a proximal end of the housing, the end piece having an opening extending into an area of the housing where one or more valves are located and configured to block blood flow from the inner passageway of the sleeve to the opening of the end piece; wherein the tube portion of the loader is so sized that it can be inserted through the opening of the end piece and the one more valves in the housing and into the inner passageway of the sleeve; wherein the loader further comprises a seal member configured to be secured to the cap portion, the seal member having a seal opening that is configured to align with the cap opening, and wherein the seal opening is sized such that when the delivery system is inserted through the cap opening and the seal opening, an outer surface of the delivery system engages the seal opening so as to block blood flow through the seal member; wherein the cap portion has an interior thread that is configured to threadably engage with an exterior thread located at the proximal end portion of the tube portion; and wherein the tube portion of the loader comprises one or more flexible flanges, each flange having a snap member being configured to bear against a corresponding ridge located at the end piece of the introducer so as to secure the tube portion to the end piece.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16200458', '16200431', '16200366', '14704866', '13774848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8608737702981045
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6039693241462467
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8351833256829188
- Mean Citation Score: 518.612386
- Max Citation Score: 562.9432
- Similarity Product: 459.76167374944686

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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