PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950486
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["623", "001160"]

Abstract:
The invention is directed to an expandable stent for implantation in a body lumen, such as an artery, and a method for making it from a single length of tubing. The stent consists of a plurality of radially expandable cylindrical elements generally aligned on a common axis and interconnected by one or more links. A Y-shaped member comprised of a link and a U-shaped member has relief dimples formed in the curved portion of a valley to reduce localized stress and thereby reduce fatigue failure that can lead to link structure failure.

Claim (Index 7):
The stent of  claim 1 , wherein each of the cylindrical rings includes at least three peaks and three valleys.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.42647
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15635026', '11205858', '11132758', '10334036', '11641634']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8303079615600294
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5113868627265536
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7984158516766818
- Mean Citation Score: 280.869146
- Max Citation Score: 352.0498
- Similarity Product: 224.08028558223248

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