PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16114052
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["623", "001130"]

Abstract:
A stentless support structure capable of being at least partly assembled in situ. The support structure comprises a braided tube that is very flexible and, when elongated, becomes very long and very small in diameter, thereby being capable of placement within a small diameter catheter. The support structure is preferably constructed of one or more thin strands of a super-elastic or shape memory material such as Nitinol. When released from the catheter, the support structure folds itself into a longitudinally compact configuration. The support structure thus gains significant strength as the number of folds increase. This radial strength obviates the need for a support stent. The support structure may include attachment points for a prosthetic valve.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of implanting a prosthetic heart valve, comprising:\n radially compressing a prosthetic heart valve to a compressed configuration, wherein the prosthetic heart valve comprises a support portion configured to anchor the prosthetic heart valve to a patient's native valve and a leaflet-supporting structure; delivering the compressed prosthetic heart valve to or near a patient's native valve annulus; positioning the leaflet-supporting structure of the prosthetic heart valve supraannularly to a patient's aortic valve; and, expanding the prosthetic heart valve to an expanded configuration, wherein the diameter of the prosthetic heart valve in the expanded configuration is greater than the diameter of the prosthetic heart valve in the compressed configuration, and wherein in the expanded configuration at least a portion of the leaflet-supporting structure is drawn within a lumen of the support portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64935
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15282617', '15284227', '11443814', '13458023', '13834135']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8092528296522802
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5123879544696852
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7795663421340207
- Mean Citation Score: 358.810066
- Max Citation Score: 367.95682
- Similarity Product: 360.92195428530806

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

Dataset: test