PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961648
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["604", "500000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for anchoring a catheter to a patient's skin using a catheter anchoring device are described. The catheter anchoring device includes one or more pairs of sharps with a sharpened end configured to pierce the surface of the skin. A locking mechanism for the sharps is used as a failsafe mechanism. The catheter anchoring device further includes a catheter clamp for securing a catheter to the catheter anchoring device. Releasing the clamp allows an operator to reposition and secure the catheter at the new position without moving the catheter anchoring device.

Claim (Index 1):
An anchor device, the device comprising:\n a housing having a bottom surface; at least one pair of sharps within the housing, each sharp in the at least one pair of sharps having an end configured to pierce a skin surface; and a locking mechanism configured to maintain the end of each sharp within the housing when the locking mechanism is engaged and to enable each sharp to protrude from the bottom surface and to pierce a skin surface when the locking mechanism is disengaged.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90385
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14318487', '11687580', '11687587', '11837426', '10209209']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7630559973580541
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5327968201075843
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.740030079633007
- Mean Citation Score: 207.358624
- Max Citation Score: 388.1908
- Similarity Product: 348.72148737869264

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

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