PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["210", "143000"]

Abstract:
A device and methods are disclosed herein for fluid removal during wound treatment or for removal or dialysis of components from blood or tissue. A device is disclosed that includes a multilayer membrane including a plurality of layers; an electroactive polymer within each layer; and a controller operably connected to sequentially activate the electroactive polymer to alter one or more sizes of the plurality of the variably-sized pores within one or more layers of the multilayer membrane. A device is disclosed that includes a multilayer membrane including a plurality of layers; an actuator operably attached to the plurality of layers of the multilayer membrane; and a controller operably activating the actuator to alter a relative lateral position of the two or more layers of the multilayer membrane to align two or more of the plurality of pores within the plurality of layers of the multilayer membrane.

Claim (Index 93):
A hemodialysis system comprising:\n a multilayer membrane adapted to contact a blood of a patient on a first side and a dialysis solution on a second side, the multilayer membrane including a plurality of membrane layers containing an electroactive polymer, each layer of the plurality of membrane layers including a plurality of variably-sized pores, the electroactive polymer responsive to an applied electrical potential to vary a size of the variably-sized pores; at least one sensor for detecting a level of a metabolite or a toxin in the blood of the patient; and a controller operably connected to sequentially apply an electrical potential to activate the electroactive polymer within the plurality of membrane layers to alter one or more sizes of the plurality of the variably-sized pores to control a passage of fluid containing the metabolite or toxin through the multilayer membrane from the first side to the second side, the controller responsive to one or more signals from the at least one sensor; wherein at least one of the plurality of the variably-sized pores in a first membrane layer is aligned with at least one of the plurality of variably-sized pores in one or more subsequent layers of the multilayer membrane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 92.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63793
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14593110', '11566541', '11793639', '15099588', '10771801']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6774915338392494
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5574562085863842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6654880013139629
- Mean Citation Score: 213.481988
- Max Citation Score: 444.62646
- Similarity Product: 312.47986111497045

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

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