PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956068
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "478000"]

Abstract:
A method of visually locating a vessel within a body lumen comprises displacing an opaque fluid with an inflatable member contained within an open area of a barrier or membrane. The method also comprises positioning the inflatable member against or adjacent to a tissue region at a first location and visually assessing the tissue region at the first location through the inflatable member. The method also comprises repositioning the inflatable member against or adjacent to the tissue region at a second location.

Claim (Index 29):
The method of  claim 22  wherein the imaging element comprises a CMOS imager, CCD imager, or optical fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02381
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11848207', '11848202', '11775771', '11259498', '11848532']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6423074110390452
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5451300232744885
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6325896722625896
- Mean Citation Score: 409.394456
- Max Citation Score: 440.8528
- Similarity Product: 342.9482661268234

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