PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16045895
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["600", "561000"]

Abstract:
A connector for connecting a pressure sensing catheter to charger is provided. The connector can include a first engagement portion engageable with a charger engagement portion of the charger to displace a pressure transmission medium in the charger engagement portion to charge one or more balloons of the pressure sensing catheter. The connector can have a handle that includes a tab terminating in an end surface engageable with an engagement surface of the charger when the first engagement portion engages with the charger engagement portion. The connector includes a distal abutment portion that engages with a portion of the charger engagement portion to provide an audible or tactile feedback, so as to prevent inadvertent overcharging of the balloons.

Claim (Index 1):
A connector for a pressure sensing catheter, the pressure sensing catheter comprising a catheter lumen and one or more balloons, at least one of the balloons being fluidly coupled to the catheter lumen, the one or more balloons being charged by a pressure transmission medium displaced when the pressure sensing catheter is connected to a charger via the connector, the connector comprising:\n a body having a lumen fluidly connectable to the catheter lumen of the pressure sensing catheter for transmitting the displaced pressure transmission medium; a first engagement portion attached to the body, the first engagement portion being engageable with a charger engagement portion of the charger, wherein engagement of the first engagement portion with the charger engagement portion displaces the pressure transmission medium present in the charger engagement portion to charge the one or more balloons; a handle attached to the body at a handle attachment portion, the handle terminating in a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, the handle being elongate and disposed in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the connector, such that the first end and the second end are positioned apart in the direction parallel to the longitudinal axis, the handle attachment portion being located between the first end and the second end, the first end of the handle being rotatable about the handle attachment point when a disengagement torque is applied, the first end having a tab terminating in an end surface, the end surface of the tab being engageable with an engagement surface of the charger when the first engagement portion engages with the charger engagement portion to engage the pressure sensing catheter and the charger, the engagement between the end surface of the tab and the engagement surface being a snap engagement providing audible and/or tactile feedback, the second end being depressable relative to the body, wherein, depressing the second end of the handle applies a the disengagement torque on the first end to rotate the first end about the handle attachment portion, thereby permitting disengagement of the first engagement portion with the charger engagement portion to thereby disengage the pressure sensing catheter and the charger.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23636
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15430967', '14530288', '14667421', '15593790', '13228922']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4899228475474254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4830248199224101
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4892330447849238
- Mean Citation Score: 215.542454
- Max Citation Score: 230.22713
- Similarity Product: 170.75976274727526

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

Dataset: test