PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756324
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["623", "001160"]

Abstract:
Vascular stent, in particular made of an in vivo degradable plastic material, having individual ring segments ( 2 ), the webs ( 4 ) of which are of meandering configuration, and comprising connecting webs ( 3 ) arranged between adjacent ring segments ( 2 ), said webs converging in connection points ( 7 ) with the webs ( 4 ) of the ring segments ( 2 ), with recesses ( 9 a,  9 b ) being arranged at angles of the connection points ( 7 ) that are compressed when the vascular stent ( 1 ) is expanded, said recesses being open towards the edge and extending through the ring segment webs ( 4 ) and connecting webs ( 3 ), with a view to reducing stresses arising during the expansion of the vascular stent ( 1 ).

Claim (Index 14):
Vascular stent according to  claim 1 , characterized in that said stent consists of a plastic material which can be degraded in vivo and is expandable by means of a balloon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20896
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16062447', '15509439', '11435260', '10955425', '10903013']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7541529774288749
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4844193403031948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7271796137163069
- Mean Citation Score: 168.905228
- Max Citation Score: 236.56131
- Similarity Product: 173.88211203751624

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

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