PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058690
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["604", "507000"]

Abstract:
Methods and kits for delivering pharmaceutical agents to the adventitia and other regions outside the external elastic lamina (EEL) surrounding a blood vessel utilize a catheter having a needle. The needle is positioned in up to 5 mm beyond the EEL and delivers an amount of pharmaceutical agent sufficient to circumferentially permeate around the blood vessel and, in many cases, extend longitudinally and radially along the blood vessel. Confirmation that a delivery aperture of the needle lies beyond the EEL may be required before delivering the pharmaceutical agent. In one example, the catheters are used to deliver dexamethasone and other anti-inflammatory agents to the peripheral and other vasculature to treat peripheral vascular disease and other conditions.

Claim (Index 6):
A method as in  claim 1 , further comprising delivering a contrast agent into the adventitial and perivascular tissue with the needle advanced into the adventitial tissue surrounding the blood vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64474
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14605865', '14203942', '12790541', '10691119', '12765708']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8273266297201031
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5806103375142893
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8026550004995217
- Mean Citation Score: 468.71668199999993
- Max Citation Score: 570.74255
- Similarity Product: 416.0849787658215

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

Dataset: test