PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961557
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "033000"]

Abstract:
The invention comprises novel microwave antennas wherein the microwave field profile generated by an antenna is tailored and optimized for a particular clinical application. The antennas disclosed herein incorporate one or more additional elements called shaping elements that use unique properties of microwaves such as interaction of a microwave field with one or more conductive or non-conductive elements to shape or redistribute the microwave field. Such shaping elements may be used to reduce the undesired backward coupling of the emitted microwave field to the transmission line. Such shaping elements may be used to increase the power efficiency of the antenna. The invention also discloses devices and methods for treating tissue with microwave energy emitted from the antennas for use in applications such as destroying a soft tissue by microwave ablation.

Claim (Index 1):
A microwave antenna for supplying energy from an energy source through a transmission line having an inner conductor surrounded by a shielding element, the microwave antenna comprising:\n a radiating element having a loop shape and a shaping element located at a distal portion of the transmission line; where the radiating element is coupled to the inner conductor to emit a microwave field when energized by the energy source; a dielectric material located at the distal end of the transmission line, the dielectric material having a first portion coupled to a distal end of the loop shape to maintain a spacing of the distal end of the loop shape from a proximal end of the loop shape; where the shaping element is in electrical contact with the shielding element and is located adjacent to the radiating element such that at least a portion of the shaping element extends along a portion of the radiating element to electrically couple to the microwave field and reduce backward coupling of the microwave field about the transmission line. (New) T.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77632
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12829222', '12603077', '14635980', '12603349', '12603134']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8193846775310273
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5414864825906992
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7915948580369945
- Mean Citation Score: 403.832412
- Max Citation Score: 448.2939
- Similarity Product: 392.1260187833548

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

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