PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15888547
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "192000"]

Abstract:
A method for dilating a stenotic region in an airway of a patient may include advancing a balloon catheter through the airway of the patient to position an inflatable balloon of the catheter within at least a portion of the stenotic region, maintaining a position of the catheter relative to the patient, and inflating the balloon of the catheter to dilate the stenotic region of the airway. A system for dilating a stenotic region in an airway of a patient may include a catheter shaft having an overall length of less than 70 cm, an inflatable balloon disposed along a distal portion of the catheter shaft, and a stylet.

Claim (Index 52):
A method for dilating a stenotic region in an airway of a patient, the method comprising:\n (a) simultaneously advancing a balloon catheter and a stylet together into the airway of a patient through the mouth and throat of the patient, wherein the stylet is positioned within the balloon catheter, wherein the balloon catheter includes an inflatable balloon that is configured to transition between unexpanded and expanded configurations, and wherein the inflatable balloon enters a predetermined location within the stenotic region in the uninflated configuration; and (b) dilating the predetermined location of the stenotic region of the airway by inflating the inflatable balloon from the unexpanded configuration to the expanded configuration, and wherein the stylet is maintained within the balloon catheter during the dilation to provide the balloon catheter added column strength and to maintain the inflatable balloon in the predetermined position within the stenotic region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12566556', '13795910', '13795999', '13551849', '15192144']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7884178282806908
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5452011860152243
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7640961640541442
- Mean Citation Score: 335.7213799999999
- Max Citation Score: 462.53815
- Similarity Product: 381.9672582116991

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

Dataset: test