PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028900
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["601", "002000"]

Abstract:
A method for the treatment of a patient for the purpose of lowering blood pressure and/or treating cardiac arrhythmias, particularly atrial fibrillation includes the insertion of an ablation catheter into the lumen of a renal artery. The ablation catheter is equipped with an electrode that can stimulate the wall tissue in the renal artery to help identify the location of a renal nerve. High-frequency stimulation of the renal nerve causes a decrease in the blood pressure of the patient thereby indicating that a renal nerve is nearby. The ablation catheter is used to ablate the renal nerve using radiofrequency, ultrasound, microwave energy or cryogenic cooling. An irrigated ablation catheter may be used to decrease damage to cells in the wall of the lumen of the renal artery other than the renal nerve, such as the endothelial cells. In order to treat atrial fibrillation an ablation catheter would be used to isolate one or more pulmonary veins in order to reduce propagation of the aberrant electrical signals capable of producing atrial fibrillation.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the irrigated tip electrode includes about fifty irrigation ports arranged in circumferential rows around the irrigated tip electrode and about six irrigation ports in a circle on a flat distal end of the irrigated tip electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01111
- Patent Class: 601.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13304933', '15240029', '14154962', '13796944', '13047094']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6074454171228431
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5463370161228501
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6013345770228438
- Mean Citation Score: 334.9059620000001
- Max Citation Score: 481.44293
- Similarity Product: 265.04310230479183

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

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