PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16273119
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["604", "528000"]

Abstract:
Described herein are bend-limited catheters (e.g., apparatuses, including devices and systems) and methods of using them.

Claim (Index 26):
The device of  claim 17 , further comprising a second region of the length of the tubular body that comprises a second one or more cut-out kerfs forming a second pattern of interlocking and alternating teeth extending around the tubular body, so that the second region of the tubular body bends freely out of the long axis up to a second locking radius, beyond which the tubular body does not allow further bending.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.10526
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15515806', '10961244', '12543941', '13615339', '10961667']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7484142700429136
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4837419478546174
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7219470378240841
- Mean Citation Score: 187.94867
- Max Citation Score: 204.19804
- Similarity Product: 147.746899876132

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