PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974386
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["606", "033000"]

Abstract:
Devices and methods are disclosed for treating tissue with microwave energy. Such devices and methods are able to treat cavities or surface tissue by creating one or more area or volumetric lesions. Also disclosed are flexible, low-profile devices that can be inserted non-invasively or minimally invasively near or into the target tissue as well as microwave antennas designed to generate ablation profiles that can ablate a large area or a large volume of target tissue in a single ablation. The devices include antennas wherein the field profile generated by an antenna is tailored and optimized for a particular clinical application. The antennas use unique properties of microwaves such as interaction of a microwave field with a metallic object and the use of additional shaping elements to shape the microwave field.

Claim (Index 2):
A medical antenna for applying energy to tissue from an energy source through a transmission line, the device comprising:\n a first conductor coupled to the transmission line and set in a first planar loop shape, where the first planar loop shape comprises a base section that extends transversely to a longitudinal axis of the transmission line; a second conductor electrically grounded and electrically insulated from the first conductor, where the second conductor comprises a second planar loop shape, the second conductor extending adjacent to the first conductor such that during application of energy to the first conductor, the second conductor is configured to alter output of the first conductor to produce a uniform microwave field about the first planar loop shape; and where the first planar loop shape flexes when the first conductor is advanced against the tissue allowing the base section to conform to the tissue while allowing the first conductor to remain in the planar loop shape.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65854
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12603349', '12603077', '14635980', '15961557', '12829222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8169595035169834
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5740724281772416
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7926707959830093
- Mean Citation Score: 420.68296
- Max Citation Score: 518.188
- Similarity Product: 468.24090419244766

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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