PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16432435
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["604", "541000"]

Abstract:
A urinary catheter may include a catheter shaft and a connector coupled with the proximal end of the catheter shaft. The connector may have a first arm ending in a fluid outlet configured to allow urine to flow out of the urinary catheter and a second arm with an aperture and ending in an inflation inlet used for introducing inflation fluid into the urinary catheter. The catheter may further include a primary lumen, an inflation lumen, a retention balloon mounted to the catheter shaft proximal to a fluid inlet and over a distal filling hole, and a pilot balloon mounted on the second arm of the connector over the aperture. The pilot balloon inflates at an inflation pressure that is higher than the inflation pressure of the retention balloon and lower than a predetermined pressure threshold.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of positioning a urinary catheter in a patient, the method comprising:\n advancing a distal end of the urinary catheter through the patient's urethra; introducing inflation fluid into the urinary catheter to inflate a retention balloon at or near the distal end of the urinary catheter; observing inflation of a pilot balloon at or near a proximal end of the urinary catheter, located outside the patient; waiting for a predefined amount of time of 3-10 seconds for the pilot balloon to deflate; if the pilot balloon deflates during the predefined amount of time, leaving the urinary catheter in place within the patient; and if the pilot balloon does not deflate during the predefined amount of time:\n removing the inflation fluid from the urinary catheter; and \n repositioning or removing the urinary catheter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30645
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15494733', '14473244', '15474242', '14292112', '13943971']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.79839061756701
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5394219810255914
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7724937539128682
- Mean Citation Score: 315.67565
- Max Citation Score: 405.90707
- Similarity Product: 303.72986354853333

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