PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16033566
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["427", "002280"]

Abstract:
A balloon coating method for forming a coating layer on the outer surface of a balloon of a balloon catheter includes: inserting a core member into a guide wire lumen penetrating the balloon, disposing a proximal portion of the core member on a proximal side of a region of inflation of the balloon, with a distal portion of the core member protruded distally beyond a distal opening portion of the guide wire lumen, and fixing by clamping together with the core member a part of the balloon catheter that is on a distal side of the region of inflation; and moving a dispensing tube for supplying a coating liquid containing the drug relative to the balloon in an axial direction of the balloon, while rotating the balloon about an axis of the balloon, thereby to apply the coating liquid to the outer surface of the balloon.

Claim (Index 9):
The balloon coating method according to  claim 1 , wherein the rotating of the balloon about the axis of the balloon includes rotating the balloon catheter by operation of a first motor positioned at the distal end of the balloon catheter and a second motor positioned at the proximal end of the balloon catheter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15136435', '15136269', '15873282', '15136397', '15789592']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8175152245679859
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5342589536242285
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7891895974736101
- Mean Citation Score: 325.420716
- Max Citation Score: 345.23785
- Similarity Product: 308.0168654879838

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