PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16167933
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["606", "041000"]

Abstract:
Ablation and visualization systems and methods to access quality of contact between a catheter and tissue are provided. In some embodiments, a method for monitoring tissue ablation of the present disclosure comprises advancing a distal tip of an ablation catheter to a tissue in need of ablation; illuminating the tissue with UV light to excite NADH in the tissue, wherein the tissue is illuminated in a radial direction, an axial direction, or both; determining from a level of NADH fluorescence in the illuminated tissue when the distal tip of the catheter is in contact with the tissue; and delivering ablation energy to the tissue to form a lesion in the tissue.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the distal tip is configured to deliver ablation energy selected from the group consisting of radiofrequency (RF) energy, microwave energy, electrical energy, electromagnetic energy, cryoenergy, laser energy, ultrasound energy, acoustic energy, chemical energy, thermal energy and combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0339
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14931325', '14689475', '13624902', '13624899', '11770604']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8053688135905314
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5296324432941407
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7777951765608924
- Mean Citation Score: 314.706364
- Max Citation Score: 401.09238
- Similarity Product: 351.34291023235915

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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