PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979182
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["601", "004000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus includes a balloon adapted to be placed adjacent a calcified region of a body. The balloon is inflatable with a liquid. The apparatus further includes a shock wave generator within the balloon that produces shock waves that propagate through the liquid for impinging upon the calcified region adjacent the balloon. The shock wave generator includes a plurality of shock wave sources distributed within the balloon.

Claim (Index 1):
A device for generating shock waves for treating a calcified lesion within a blood vessel or calcified aortic valve comprising:\n an elongated support; a fluid fillable chamber mounted on the support; a first wire extending along the support and into the chamber, wherein the distal end of the first wire defines a first electrode of a first pair of electrodes, there being at least two pairs of electrodes extending along support and wherein a second wire extends along the support and into the chamber, wherein the distal end of the second wire defines the second electrode in the most distal of the electrode pairs, and wherein one electrode in each pair has a surface area greater than the surface area of the other electrode in the pair, with the electrode pairs being arranged such that when a high voltage pulse is applied to the proximal ends of the first and second wires, arcs are generated in the fluid adjacent each electrode pair whereby a series connection is defined between the first and second wires and the intermediate electrode pairs, with a shock wave being generated from each electrode pair.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91892
- Patent Class: 601.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13534658', '14271342', '15474885', '15729238', '15018160']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.659726152867405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5873967215530681
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6524932097359714
- Mean Citation Score: 431.481992
- Max Citation Score: 503.74612
- Similarity Product: 460.3697147001196

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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