PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891150
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["604", "019000"]

Abstract:
A controllable stiffness catheter comprising a shaft comprising an inner sheath defining an access lumen, an outer sheath surrounding the inner sheath and defining an annulus therebetween, the annulus having a vacuum connection at which a vacuum is applied to the annulus, and a mechanical stiffener disposed at least at a portion of the annulus.

Claim (Index 26):
The catheter according to  claim 24 , wherein, responsive to the longitudinal portion being disposed within neurological vasculature and the vacuum being applied to the annulus through the vacuum connection, the shaft is stiffened at least at the longitudinal portion at which the mechanical stiffener is disposed to substantially maintain the current shape and a current orientation of the shaft in the neurological vasculature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68571
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12822219', '15054983', '13919080', '11395903', '11233993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8720432696994339
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5418657510631568
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8390255178358061
- Mean Citation Score: 386.489874
- Max Citation Score: 423.5436
- Similarity Product: 309.69221905310155

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

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