PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042936
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["600", "485000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are provided for assessing endothelial function in a mammal. In certain embodiments the methods involve using a cuff to apply pressure to an artery in a subject to determine a plurality of baseline values for a parameter related to endothelial function as a function of applied pressure (P m ); b) applying a stimulus to the subject; and applying external pressure P m  to the artery to determine a plurality of stimulus-effected values for the parameter related to endothelial function as a function of applied pressure (P m ); where the baseline values are determined from measurements made when said mammal is not substantially effected by said stimulus and differences in said baseline values and said stimulus-effected values provide a measure of endothelial function in said mammal.

Claim (Index 21):
The method of  claim 20 , wherein said providing, over the course of one or more cardiac cycles, changes in pressure in said cuff resulting from cardiac activity of said mammal comprises determining the pressure in said cuff as a function of time to provide a cardiac pulse waveform while the cuff inflates and/or while said cuff deflates.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2623
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15680082', '15236250', '15741185', '12483930', '13252245']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6256590869524064
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6747513003614284
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6305683082933086
- Mean Citation Score: 434.9785
- Max Citation Score: 589.7051
- Similarity Product: 533.0572326318861

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

Dataset: test