PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941599
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["604", "510000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for guiding cannulation with a dialysis needle of an arteriovenous dialysis access graft subcutaneously implanted in a body of a subject. The guiding apparatus comprises an elongated body member comprising a base portion terminating in longitudinal edges, a distance between the longitudinal edges of the base portion being substantially equal to a lateral dimension of the aces graft, and an elongated tubular sleeve defining an pocket having a longitudinal dimension and a lateral dimension configured to receive the body member. The body member is adapted to be received in the pocket of the sleeve for securing adjacent the subcutaneous access graft such that the inner surface of the base portion is aligned with a cannulation point of the graft for guiding location of a needle insertion.

Claim (Index 5):
An apparatus for guiding cannulation with a dialysis needle of an arteriovenous dialysis access graft subcutaneously implanted in a body of a subject, the arteriovenous dialysis graft including a flexible conduit defining a longitudinal flow passageway and having a first end portion configured to connect to an artery of the subject and a second end portion configured to connect to a vein of the subject such that blood flows through the longitudinal flow passageway of the conduit from the first end portion to the second end portion, and a cannulation chamber defining a cannulation port between the first end portion and the second end portion, the conduit extending through the cannulation chamber for receiving the needle inserted through the cannulation port, the guiding apparatus comprising:\n an elongated tubular sleeve having a longitudinal axis, the sleeve defining an opening having a longitudinal dimension and a lateral dimension adapted to be substantially equal to a longitudinal dimension and a lateral dimension of the cannulation chamber, wherein the sleeve is configured to accommodate the body of the subject adjacent the subcutaneous cannulation chamber of the access graft such that the opening surrounds the cannulation chamber for guiding location of a needle insertion into the cannulation port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07812
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14027986', '15450523', '15396791', '14310373', '13607783']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7601133586902334
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.549972905704674
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7390993133916776
- Mean Citation Score: 299.27562400000005
- Max Citation Score: 411.36856
- Similarity Product: 386.9898739457416

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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