PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872975
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["607", "116000"]

Abstract:
Anchors for use with implantable medical leads include an elastic body containing one or more rigid bodies that have longitudinal free edges. The longitudinal free edges run from end to end to define full length slots. Partial length slots may also be included within the one or more rigid bodies. The full length and partial length slots allow for deflection of the rigid bodies against the body of an implantable medical lead to hold the anchor in place on the lead. The full length slots allow a blade to pass through and cut a slit in the elastic body which allows the anchor to be removed from the lead.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of anchoring an implantable medical lead, comprising:\n sliding an anchor installation tool having a shaft with an end affixed directly to a larger diameter cylindrical handle with the handle being in a fixed position relative to the shaft onto a free end of the medical lead and along a lead body of the medical lead until reaching a desired location on the lead body, where the shaft and handle have parallel longitudinal axes, with an anchor disposed on the shaft of the anchor installation tool, the anchor including an elastic body defining a passageway and including a deflectable rigid body within the passageway of the elastic body, the rigid body defining at least a portion of a lead passageway extending from a first end of the rigid body to a second end of the rigid body, the rigid body having a longitudinal free edge extending from the first end to the second end, the shaft of the anchor installation tool being present within the lead passageway; and forcing the anchor off of the shaft of the anchor installation tool and onto the lead such that the rigid body contacts the lead such that the anchor is held in position on the lead.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15376601', '13357975', '15483370', '13356050', '14457602']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6630482561249512
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5212938134154843
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6488728118540046
- Mean Citation Score: 258.05710400000004
- Max Citation Score: 361.33704
- Similarity Product: 293.9547847186804

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