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 8):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the catheter comprises a catheter body; the distal tip being positioned at a distal end of the catheter body for delivering ablation energy to the tissue, and one or more optical fibers extending through the catheter body into the distal tip, the one or more optical fibers being in communication with a light source to illuminate the tissue and a light measuring instrument to relay the light returned from the tissue to the light measuring instrument.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0339
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14931325', '14689475', '13624902', '13624899', '11770604']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7807052777731309
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5343251302092878
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7560672630167466
- Mean Citation Score: 314.706364
- Max Citation Score: 401.09238
- Similarity Product: 384.2778198904717

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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