PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16433909
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "041000"]

Abstract:
A method for reshaping a nasal airway in a patient involves advancing an inflatable balloon of a reshaping device in an uninflated configuration into a nostril of the patient and between a nasal septum and a lateral wall of the nasal airway. The method then involves inflating the inflatable balloon to an inflated configuration to cause the inflatable balloon to contact nasal mucosa covering the nasal septum and the lateral wall, delivering energy from an energy delivery member attached to or inside of the inflatable balloon, and removing the reshaping device from the nasal airway.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for improving nasal airflow or perceived nasal airflow through a nasal airway in a patient, the method comprising:\n advancing a treatment element of a nasal airway treatment device through a nostril of the patient to a nasal valve area of the nasal airway, wherein the treatment element comprises;\n a balloon; and \n at least one radiofrequency electrode coupled with the balloon; \n inflating the balloon to deform nasal tissue of the nasal valve area; delivering radiofrequency energy to the nasal tissue, using the at least one radiofrequency electrode, to heat the nasal tissue, while maintaining the balloon in an inflated configuration; deflating the balloon; and removing the nasal airway treatment device from the nasal airway, wherein a property of the nasal tissue in the nasal valve area is changed after removal of the nasal airway treatment device and healing of the nasal tissue.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15217
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15272007', '14319087', '15596455', '14540050', '13495844']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.818908585515574
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5426938830066261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7912871152646792
- Mean Citation Score: 352.2863900000001
- Max Citation Score: 359.56024
- Similarity Product: 286.09756583337787

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