PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140095
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["606", "041000"]

Abstract:
Various catheters with expandable and contractible fluid pathways extending therethrough, and methods of use, are provided herein. In an exemplary embodiment, a catheter is provided with an elongate body having an electrode at the distal end thereof. One or more expandable members or wings can extend between the electrode and the distal end of the elongate body. The catheter can also include an actuator extending therethrough and coupled to the electrode such that movement of the actuator is effective to advance and retract the electrode, thereby moving the one or more expandable members between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The catheter can also include a fluid sealed lumen formed therein and configured to receive fluid and to deliver fluid to one or more pathways formed in the electrode. The actuator can extend through the fluid sealed lumen, however it can be fluidly separated from the lumen. The fluid sealed lumen can be configured to expand and collapse with movement of the electrode, while allowing movement of the actuator therethrough.

Claim (Index 5):
The catheter of  claim 1 , wherein the elongate body includes a tube that is configured to expand radially outward in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the elongate body when the electrode assembly is moved from the collapsed configuration to the expanded configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32911
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12939121', '12936666', '10952492', '14201371', '12024974']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8278003873149558
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.486116409292443
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7936319895127045
- Mean Citation Score: 275.00207
- Max Citation Score: 300.6459
- Similarity Product: 250.2267425428033

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