PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974203
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["134", "022110"]

Abstract:
The invention is directed towards a rinsing chamber for medical catheters. The device has at least an inlet port and an outlet port, arranged in such a fashion as to promote continuous flow of an irrigant fluid through the device and in contact with a predetermined portion of a catheter within the device, carrying away secretions, debris, or other contaminants from the exterior surface of the catheter.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of rinsing medical catheters comprising:\n presenting at least a predetermined portion of a medical catheter to the interior of a rinsing chamber, lowering the pressure in the interior of said rinsing chamber to below that of the immediate atmosphere, introducing an irrigant under pressure to the interior of said rinsing chamber, withdrawing the irrigant at least partially concurrent to the introduction thereof to establish a continuous flow of irrigant through said rinsing chamber, and directing the continuous flow of irrigant through the rinsing chamber in confronting relation to at least the exterior surface portions of the catheter to facilitate removal of waste materials therefrom.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.40385
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11458185', '10819409', '13706657', '14719616', '13162417']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8528956251939676
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4526918400957251
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8128752466841432
- Mean Citation Score: 145.506366
- Max Citation Score: 151.89012
- Similarity Product: 124.693519763453

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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