PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16004970
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["604", "167030"]

Abstract:
Methods and devices to facilitate positioning of a catheter into a vessel. Devices include axially concentric assemblies of a piercing needle and a dilator that guides an outer catheter into a vessel, such as a blood vessel. The assemblies described herein can include retraction mechanisms and/or lock mechanisms to control needle positioning during catheterization processes as well as improved valves that prevent leakage of fluid from the proximal end of the devices. The devices and method include the use of novel valves to prevent undesired leakage of fluids through the proximal end of the catheter.

Claim (Index 25):
The medical assembly of  claim 19 , where the housing further comprises an end cap at a proximal end, and where the projection comprising a tapered projection extending distally from the end cap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78571
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12182793', '15169717', '15435700', '12709861', '10579534']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.817014566770007
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.505544239952847
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.785867534088291
- Mean Citation Score: 269.05987200000004
- Max Citation Score: 273.13828
- Similarity Product: 144.7948318265295

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

Dataset: test