PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16273119
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["604", "528000"]

Abstract:
Described herein are bend-limited catheters (e.g., apparatuses, including devices and systems) and methods of using them.

Claim (Index 1):
A non-uniformly bend-limited catheter device having a length extending in a long axis, the device comprising:\n a tubular body formed of a rigid material having one or more cut-out kerfs forming a pattern of interlocking and alternating teeth extending around the tubular body, wherein each tooth of the interlocking and alternating teeth each comprise a head region that is wider than a base region, arranged so that the head regions alternate with base regions radially around the tubular body, so that the tubular body bends freely out of the long axis up to a locking radius, beyond which the tubular body does not allow further bending; wherein each tooth of the interlocking and alternating teeth form a tooth angle between a line extending through a width of the head region and a line extending from the head region and the base region, further wherein the tooth angles of the interlocking and alternating teeth vary radially around the tubular body so that the locking radius of the portion of the length of the tubular body varies radially around the tubular body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.10526
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15515806', '10961244', '12543941', '13615339', '10961667']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7491353642808303
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.479900343398238
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7222118621925712
- Mean Citation Score: 187.94867
- Max Citation Score: 204.19804
- Similarity Product: 153.77539299396514

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