PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938991
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["604", "500000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of bulking or cushioning agents or material and related medical devices and methods are disclosed. For example, a method of performing a medical procedure in a tract of a body may include injecting a material in a liquid phase proximate a target site between a first tissue layer and a second tissue layer, allowing the material to transition from the liquid phase to the gel phase in response to a raise in temperature of the material to approximately at or above the predetermined temperature, and performing a surgical procedure on the target site. The material may have the liquid phase at temperatures below a predetermined temperature and a gel phase at temperature approximately at or above the predetermined temperature.

Claim (Index 47):
A system for performing a medical procedure, comprising:\n an elongated member having a distal end configured to position a material between a first tissue layer and a second tissue layer; the material contained in a lumen of the elongated member, the material having a first viscosity phase below a predetermined temperature, and having a second viscosity phase greater than the first viscosity phase approximately at or above the predetermined temperature, wherein the material when in the second viscosity phase and positioned between the first and second layers raises a portion of the first tissue layer above the second tissue layer; and an end effector configured to perform the medical procedure on the raised portion of the first tissue layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18966
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11231293', '13024642', '13609822', '14486783', '14546925']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.790070399461601
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5568863251143215
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.766751992026873
- Mean Citation Score: 382.482246
- Max Citation Score: 443.19165
- Similarity Product: 366.3432812615365

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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