PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895585
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["604", "531000"]

Abstract:
A catheter or other elongated member can include an elongated inner portion, an elongated outer portion, a flex circuit ribbon comprising at least one conductor, and an electrical contact. The flex circuit ribbon can be situated between the inner portion and the outer portion. The inner portion and the outer portion can be (1) affixed together between portions of the flex circuit ribbon or (2) integrally formed such that masses of the inner and outer portions are joined together between portions of the flex circuit ribbon. The electrical contact can be configured to be exposed during use. The electrical contact can be situated at, or connected to, the at least one conductor of the flex circuit ribbon.

Claim (Index 21):
An apparatus comprising:\n a biocompatible catheter comprising: an elongated inner portion, comprising an elongated inner member comprising an outer surface; an elongated outer portion, comprising an elongated outer member comprising an inner surface; a flex circuit ribbon, comprising at least one conductor, the flex circuit ribbon disposed between (1) the outer surface of the elongated tubular inner member and (2) the inner surface of the elongated tubular outer member, the flex circuit ribbon wound about the elongated inner member, wherein the inner portion and the outer portion are bonded together between wound portions of the flex circuit ribbon; an electrical contact included in or connected to the at least one conductor of the flex circuit ribbon, the electrical contact comprising a plurality of discrete electrodes situated about the flex circuit ribbon so as to provide a specified electric field distribution for the apparatus; a stiffener selectively situated on a first portion and a second portion of the surface of the flex circuit ribbon to provide a specified stiffener pattern on the surface of the flex circuit ribbon, wherein a greater quantity of the stiffener is situated on the first portion of the surface of the flex circuit ribbon than on the second portion of the surface of the flex circuit ribbon, wherein the first portion of the surface of the flex circuit ribbon is longitudinally situated differently on the apparatus than the second portion of the surface of the flex circuit ribbon; a connector configured to be electrically coupled to the flex circuit ribbon, the connector comprising a plurality of electrical connectors configured to be respectively individually coupled to conductors of the flex circuit ribbon; and an end-user attachable or end-user detachable elongated portion configured to permit an end-user to (1) electrically couple the end-user attachable or detachable elongated portion to or (2) electrically decouple the end-user attachable or detachable elongated portion from the connector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51923
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14436416', '13847300', '13465655', '14711308', '12167051']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7615413480239135
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5562480576217683
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7410120189836991
- Mean Citation Score: 238.90014
- Max Citation Score: 442.0235
- Similarity Product: 400.44887566140295

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

Dataset: test