PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16384636
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "191000"]

Abstract:
In one aspect, a gastric balloon structure includes multiple isolated non-concentric inflatable chambers and a valve system for introducing fluid into each chamber, where the structure assumes, upon inflating, a curved shape conforming to a natural three-dimensional kidney shape of the gastric cavity.

Claim (Index 10):
A space-occupying balloon system for obesity treatment, comprising:\n two or more inflatable gastric balloons, each balloon of the two or more inflatable gastric balloons comprising\n a wall including two or more layers, wherein a first layer of the two or more layers is formed from an elastic material, and \n a respective inflation lumen, wherein,\n prior to the inflation via the inflation lumen, each balloon of the two or more inflatable gastric balloons has a major dimension no larger than two centimeters, and \n after the inflation, the two or more inflatable gastric balloons arrange along a generally kidney shaped curve to align against the greater or lesser curvatures of the gastric cavity of a patient; \n \n wherein the space-occupying balloon system is configured for delivery via an esophagus of the patient and inflation with at least one gas after placement within the gastric cavity of the patient; and wherein each balloon of the two or more inflatable gastric balloons is released after inflation to float untethered within the gastric cavity of the patient.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.26316
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14971845', '15231167', '14971795', '15621795', '15232485']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8445751995617161
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5794315729515047
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.818060836900695
- Mean Citation Score: 473.17307199999993
- Max Citation Score: 495.92712
- Similarity Product: 411.339601851368

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

Dataset: test