PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135472
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["424", "489000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments disclosed relate to drug-coated balloon catheters for treating strictures in body lumens and methods of using the same. A drug-coated balloon catheter for delivering a therapeutic agent to a target site of a body lumen stricture includes an elongated balloon having a main diameter. The balloon catheter includes a coating layer overlying an exterior surface of the balloon. The coating layer includes one or more water-soluble additives and an initial drug load of a therapeutic agent.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for treating a body lumen stricture, the method comprising:\n inserting a scope and a balloon catheter with a drug coating into a body lumen such that the balloon catheter is in a stricture in the body lumen; inflating to the balloon catheter to an initial pressure and maintaining the initial pressure until the pressure no longer drops; inflating to a next higher pressure above the initial pressure and maintaining the next higher pressure until the pressure inside the balloon no longer drops; repeating the inflating to the next higher pressure and the maintaining until the lumen is dilated to a desired diameter; keeping the balloon inflated for 1 minute to 7 days to release the drug into tissue and to prevent bleeding; deflating the balloon catheter; and withdrawing the scope and balloon catheter from the body lumen.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60784
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14438327', '13859479', '15474242', '14024440', '14695848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7307403796736317
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5130660398537495
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7089729456916436
- Mean Citation Score: 268.302702
- Max Citation Score: 301.2391
- Similarity Product: 225.98437579511403

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test