PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014201
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["606", "191000"]

Abstract:
A vascular plug comprises a superstructure expandable from a collapsed percutaneous insertion configuration to an expanded deployment or use configuration. The superstructure is comprised of both primary and secondary three-dimensional shapes allowing for the occlusion of a wide range of vessel sizes from small to large through a disproportionately small delivery catheter. The plug includes a shape memory element for the generation of radial force and the creation of the larger secondary three-dimensional twisting or helical superstructure as is needed for target vessel occlusion.

Claim (Index 29):
A medical method comprising:\n providing two medical occlusion devices each having a superstructure with a fully expanded form that is a tubular structure in a coiled or spiraling configuration; inserting, into a vascular system of a patient, a first one of said medical occlusion devices with the respective said superstructure in a collapsed configuration; thereafter expanding the superstructure of said first one of said medical occlusion devices from the collapsed configuration to an adaptively expanded configuration inside a target blood vessel in the vascular system of the patient so that the expanded superstructure of said first one of said medical occlusion devices extends across a selected portion of the target blood vessel and engages an endothelial surface of said selected portion of the target blood vessel, wherein the adaptively expanded configuration of said first one of said medical occlusion devices has a central or axial opening defined by at least one turn or winding of the adaptively expanded configuration of said first one of said medical occlusion devices; inserting, into the vascular system of a patient, a second one of said medical occlusion devices with the respective said superstructure in a collapsed configuration; thereafter expanding the superstructure of said second one of said medical occlusion devices from the respective collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration inside the target blood vessel with an end portion of said second one of said medial occlusion devices inserted into said central or axial opening in the expanded superstructure of said first one of said medical occlusion devices so that the expanded superstructure of said second one of said medical occlusion devices occludes said central or axial opening in the expanded superstructure of said first one of said medical occlusion devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52632
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11662849', '11111487', '11662847', '11185160', '13845162']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8051317341073236
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4820138349536838
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7728199441919597
- Mean Citation Score: 258.24751000000003
- Max Citation Score: 268.92932
- Similarity Product: 195.9698806896806

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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