PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16173833
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["427", "002100"]

Abstract:
A method for making an implantable medical device for in vivo delivery of bioactive active agents to a situs in a body. The implantable structural element may be configured as an implantable prosthesis, such as an endoluminal stent, cardiac valve, osteal implant or the like, which serves a dual function of being prosthetic and a carrier for a bioactive agent. Alternatively, the implantable structural element may simply be an implantable article that serves the single function of acting as a time-release carrier for the bioactive agent.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of making a drug-eluting implantable device comprising the steps of:\n a. Providing at least one of a plurality of tubular members, the at least one of a plurality of tubular members having a length, an outer surface, and a central lumen; b. Forming a plurality of openings passing through the at least one of a plurality of tubular members, the plurality of openings communicating between the central lumen and the outer surface of the at least one of a plurality of tubular members; c. Configuring the at least one of a plurality of tubular members to define undulating portions along the length of the at least one of a plurality of tubular members and forming a structure of the drug-eluting implantable device; and d. Loading a bioactive agent through the plurality of openings and into the central lumen of the at least one of a plurality of tubular members.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70909
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12837443', '14249278', '10936884', '10258087', '13412407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8159914205986852
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5413046106238614
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7885227396012029
- Mean Citation Score: 353.259682
- Max Citation Score: 369.01
- Similarity Product: 275.93934077858927

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

Dataset: test