PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16256077
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["607", "002000"]

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 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the treatment element comprises at least one pair of bipolar radiofrequency electrodes, and wherein delivering the treatment comprises delivering radiofrequency energy between the at least one pair of bipolar radiofrequency electrodes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14540050', '14319087', '15696905', '13495844', '15686265']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7545929064763931
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5634061938973964
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7354742352184934
- Mean Citation Score: 433.21583
- Max Citation Score: 447.2157
- Similarity Product: 300.2248798398614

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

Dataset: test