PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15747330
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "424000"]

Abstract:
Many medical procedures involve the implantation of an element in a vascular body. Current imaging techniques allow the positioning of such expandable elements to be checked, before and after implantation, using contrast bursts into the blood from a pigtail catheter. When the implantation of the medical device needs to be performed quickly, the pigtail catheter is pulled back briskly. This process is prone to error, because at the point of implantation, a medical professional has many other factors to consider, as well as the withdrawal of the catheter. If an implantable device traps the pigtail catheter during or after expansion, undesirable results can occur, such as having to pull sharply on the catheter to remove it, and in the process, disrupting the newly implanted device. This application discusses a technique for automatically generating a region of implantation around a medical device prior to and during implantation. If a second medical device, such as a pigtail catheter, strays into the area, an alarm can be generated to warn a medical professional to withdraw the catheter, before deployment continues.

Claim (Index 13):
A computer program element for controlling an apparatus which, when the computer program element is executed by a processing unit, is adapted to perform the steps of the method according to  claim 11 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13387234', '13983155', '14359112', '12984954', '13751728']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4774490022069306
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4946722751609277
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4791713295023304
- Mean Citation Score: 171.749874
- Max Citation Score: 191.54726
- Similarity Product: 112.33451958320498

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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