PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16406530
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "151000"]

Abstract:
System for fixation of leaflets of a heart valve including a delivery catheter having an elongated shaft, a proximal end portion and a distal end portion configured to be positioned proximate native leaflets of a heart valve from a remote vascular access point, the delivery catheter further includes a rotatable actuator rod having a threaded fastener at a distal end thereof, and a fixation device releasably coupled by a threaded connection to the threaded fastener of the actuator rod. The fixation device includes a first arm moveable between a closed position and an open position, a second arm moveable between a closed position and an open position. The fixation device further includes a first gripping element movable relative to the first arm in the open position, the first gripping element biased toward the first arm to capture a first leaflet of the heart valve therebetween, and a second gripping element movable relative to the second arm in the open position, the second gripping element biased toward the second arm to capture a second leaflet of the heart valve therebetween. The first gripping element and the second gripping element each includes a plurality of barbs extending therefrom, the plurality of barbs of each of the first gripping element and the second gripping element being aligned transversely in at least one row. The fixation device further includes a covering disposed on each of the first gripping element and the second gripping element, wherein the plurality of barbs of the first gripping element and the second gripping element, respectively, protrude through the covering.

Claim (Index 6):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein the fixation device is configured to capture the first leaflet of the heart valve between the first gripping element and the first arm, then separately to capture the second leaflet of the heart valve between the second gripping element and the second arm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.24706
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16406476', '16406583', '10441687', '11623590', '12642630']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7764090213550487
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5704884760898531
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7558169668285292
- Mean Citation Score: 431.88875400000006
- Max Citation Score: 483.13184
- Similarity Product: 466.7908653472901

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