PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16047909
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["623", "001140"]

Abstract:
Stents and methods of using stents are provided. Stents of the invention provide external support structure for a blood vessel segment disposed within, wherein the stents are capable of resilient radial expansion in a manner mimicking the compliance properties of an artery. The stent may be formed of a knitted or braided mesh formed so as to provide the needed compliance properties. A venous graft with the stent and a vein segment disposed within is provided, wherein graft is capable of mimicking the compliance properties of an artery. Methods of selecting stents for downsizing and methods of using the stents of the invention in downsizing and smoothening are provided. Methods of replacing a section of an artery with a venous graft including a stent of the invention are provided. Methods of reducing intimal hyperplasia in implanted vein segment in a venous graft using stents of the invention are provided.

Claim (Index 2):
A method of producing a venous graft for use in replacing a section of an artery, comprising:\n providing a segment of a vein; sheathing the segment in a generally tubular support that is in a first configuration; transforming the tubular support from the first configuration into a second configuration that is different from the first configuration, wherein the tubular support in the second configuration is in supportive contact with ablumenal surface of the vein segment and, and wherein the tubular support has a narrower diameter in the second configuration as compared to the first configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43077
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13209517', '15344998', '11797648', '14048864', '13745999']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8588232841828096
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5476842281681664
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8277093785813453
- Mean Citation Score: 533.8974599999998
- Max Citation Score: 538.95026
- Similarity Product: 341.70686647931694

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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