PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16168176
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["604", "093010"]

Abstract:
Systems are disclosed for facilitating intranasal treatment of a patient's sphenopalatine/pterygopalatine recess. Likewise the instant system is effective for addressing acute pain conditions, and is refined enough to be performed by physician's assistants, nurses, and other well-trained practitioners. Apparatus involved includes a sheath hub, a catheter hub, an arresting element, and an engagement element in embodiments. Engagement between the arresting element and the engagement element prevents rotation of the sheath hub with respect to the catheter hub.

Claim (Index 27):
An apparatus for facilitating intranasal treatment of a patient's sphenopalatine/pterygopalatine recess, the apparatus comprising:\n a sheath hub having an exterior surface opposing an interior surface, wherein the interior surface defines a catheter hub receiving space; a catheter hub positioned longitudinally adjacent to the sheath hub and partially received within the catheter hub receiving space of the sheath hub, the catheter hub comprising:\n (i) a manipulation portion, the manipulation portion defining a stopping surface of the catheter hub for contacting an adjoining end of the adjacent sheath hub to arrest further insertion of the catheter hub within the catheter hub receiving space; and \n (ii) an insertion portion, the insertion portion extending from the stopping surface defined by the manipulation portion and slideably received within the catheter hub receiving space; \n a sheath coupled to and extending from a distal end portion of the sheath hub, and a catheter coupled to and extending from a distal end portion of the catheter hub, wherein:\n (i) an insertion end of the catheter has an intrinsic curvature; \n (ii) the sheath straightens the intrinsic curvature of the catheter when the catheter hub is positioned in an extended position; \n (iii) the catheter is traversed within the sheath when the insertion portion of the catheter hub is advanced into the catheter hub receiving space of the sheath hub from the extended position; \n (iv) the intrinsic curvature of the catheter is maintained in a straightened form until the insertion end of the catheter exits from an introduction end of the sheath; and \n (v) an outer diameter of the introduction end of the sheath is tapered and rotationally symmetric around a longitudinal axis of the sheath such that the introduction end of the sheath slopes to a vertex, the vertex aligning with a beginning of a curve of a tip of the insertion end of the catheter to form a continuous transition between the vertex and the beginning of the curve when the catheter hub is positioned in the extended position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58929
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13371288', '13629997', '15974179', '15412377', '15803335']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8237283276749157
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6500304539814146
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8063585403055656
- Mean Citation Score: 430.626836
- Max Citation Score: 690.9492
- Similarity Product: 598.1843792435646

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