PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014201
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["606", "191000"]

Abstract:
A vascular plug comprises a superstructure expandable from a collapsed percutaneous insertion configuration to an expanded deployment or use configuration. The superstructure is comprised of both primary and secondary three-dimensional shapes allowing for the occlusion of a wide range of vessel sizes from small to large through a disproportionately small delivery catheter. The plug includes a shape memory element for the generation of radial force and the creation of the larger secondary three-dimensional twisting or helical superstructure as is needed for target vessel occlusion.

Claim (Index 26):
A medical device comprising a superstructure expandable from a collapsed insertion configuration to a fully expanded deployment or use configuration,\n said insertion configuration being sufficiently small to enable percutaneous introduction into a patient's vascular system, said fully expanded deployment or use configuration being sufficiently large to extend across a target blood vessel and engage an endothelial surface of such blood vessel, said insertion configuration of said superstructure taking the form of a collapsed self-expanding tubular structure expandable to said fully expanded deployment or use configuration, said fully expanded deployment or use configuration being a three-dimensional twisted or helical form of said tubular structure, said tubular structure being selectively expandable to any of a variety of intermediate forms between a cylindrical configuration and said fully expanded deployment or use configuration, whereby said superstructure is engageable with endotheliums of a wide range of vessel sizes from small to large upon minimally invasive delivery through a delivery catheter having an outer diameter a fraction of an outer diameter of said cylindrical configuration of said tubular structure, said outer diameter of said cylindrical configuration of said tubular structure in turn being a fraction of an outer diameter of said fully expanded deployment or use configuration, said superstructure including an inner wire made of shape memory material and attached to an outer wall of said tubular structure at two mutually spaced locations, said inner wire being attached to said outer wall also at at least one additional location between said two mutually spaced locations.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52632
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11662849', '11111487', '11662847', '11185160', '13845162']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8050261879206253
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4828463804392764
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7728082071724904
- Mean Citation Score: 258.24751000000003
- Max Citation Score: 268.92932
- Similarity Product: 193.1678870857382

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

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