PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891150
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["604", "019000"]

Abstract:
A controllable stiffness catheter comprising a shaft comprising an inner sheath defining an access lumen, an outer sheath surrounding the inner sheath and defining an annulus therebetween, the annulus having a vacuum connection at which a vacuum is applied to the annulus, and a mechanical stiffener disposed at least at a portion of the annulus.

Claim (Index 31):
The catheter according to  claim 24 , wherein a magnitude of a pressure difference between an outside of the catheter and the interior of the annulus affects stiffness of the shaft such that, as the pressure difference increases, the stiffness at least at the longitudinal portion increases.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68571
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12822219', '15054983', '13919080', '11395903', '11233993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8725399682985364
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5399215014389465
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8392781216125775
- Mean Citation Score: 386.489874
- Max Citation Score: 423.5436
- Similarity Product: 289.02470865690714

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