PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16273935
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["606", "021000"]

Abstract:
Methods and devices for treating nasal airways are provided. Such devices and methods may improve airflow through an internal and/or external nasal valve, and comprise the use of mechanical re-shaping, energy application and other treatments to modify the shape, structure, and/or air flow characteristics of an internal nasal valve, an external nasal valve or other nasal airways.

Claim (Index 21):
A device for treating nasal tissue from within a nasal cavity, the device comprising:\n a handle; a shaft extending from the handle; and an expandable treatment element at a distal end of the shaft, the expandable treatment element comprising:\n multiple shape memory material segments; \n a first set of bipolar electrodes disposed on the multiple shape memory material segments; and \n a second set of bipolar electrodes disposed on the multiple shape memory material segments, wherein the treatment element is configured to transmit radiofrequency energy between the first set and the second set of bipolar electrodes, such that the radiofrequency energy passes through the nasal tissue at a selected tissue depth, and wherein the multiple shape memory material segments are configured to expand to a size and a shape for contacting at least some of the first set and the second set of bipolar electrodes with the nasal tissue.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13495879', '15696905', '14963719', '15272007', '14754087']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8362389423501682
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5401704208868296
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8066320902038343
- Mean Citation Score: 454.96470200000016
- Max Citation Score: 464.67978
- Similarity Product: 361.2822295276666

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

Dataset: test