PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975031
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["427", "002100"]

Abstract:
A balloon coating method and apparatus are disclosed which can perform coating while freely controlling, for example, the thickness of a coating layer and/or the morphological form of a drug. The method includes pulling a distal tip of the balloon in an axial direction of the balloon to straighten a bend of the balloon; rotating the balloon about an axis of the balloon; and coating the outer surface of the balloon with a coating liquid.

Claim (Index 20):
The apparatus according to  claim 14 , further comprising:\n the balloon catheter, the balloon catheter including a catheter main body, the catheter main body including an outer tube, an inner tube, and an inflation lumen located between the outer tube and the inner tube, and wherein the balloon is located at a distal portion of the catheter main body, and wherein a length of the balloon of the balloon catheter is not less than 100 mm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7234
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15188266', '15136397', '15873282', '15789592', '15136435']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8157178961684842
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5290753936282132
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7870536459144571
- Mean Citation Score: 297.807854
- Max Citation Score: 355.89462000000015
- Similarity Product: 344.15485196107875

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

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