PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16240066
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["606", "041000"]

Abstract:
Systems, devices, and methods for electroporation ablation therapy are disclosed, with the system including a pulse waveform signal generator for medical ablation therapy, and an endocardial ablation device includes at least one electrode for ablation pulse delivery to tissue. The signal generator may deliver voltage pulses to the ablation device in the form of a pulse waveform. The system may include a cardiac stimulator for generation of pacing signals and for sequenced delivery of pulse waveforms in synchrony with the pacing signal.

Claim (Index 108):
A method, comprising:\n advancing a guidewire and a sheath into a left atrium through a transseptal opening; advancing an ablation device into the left atrium over the guidewire, the ablation device including:\n a catheter shaft defining a longitudinal axis and a shaft lumen therethrough; and \n a set of splines coupled to the catheter shaft, a distal portion of each spline of the set of splines extending distally from a distal end of the catheter shaft, each spline of the set of splines including a set of electrodes formed on a surface of each spline of the set of splines, the set of splines configured to transition between a first configuration in which the distal portion of each spline of the set of splines is disposed a first distance from a distal end of the catheter shaft and a second configuration in which the distal portion of each spline from the set of splines is disposed a second distance less than the first distance from the distal end of the catheter shaft; \n transitioning the ablation device from the first configuration into the second configuration; advancing the ablation device to toward a pulmonary vein of a set of pulmonary veins; and delivering an ablation pulse waveform to the ablation device such that the ablation device generates a set of electric field lines generally parallel with a longitudinal axis of a set of myocardial cells disposed circumferentially in an atrial wall of the left atrium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 115.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15711266', '16181027', '15874721', '15965564', '10274767']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8178623491370859
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6029684357268703
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7963729577960643
- Mean Citation Score: 449.05317
- Max Citation Score: 577.95276
- Similarity Product: 526.7778843179798

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

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