PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["623", "001150"]

Abstract:
A stent includes a high radial force segment and a highly flexible segment, where the diameters of the high radial force segment and the highly flexible segment are different. For example, the stent may be formed from a tube having varying diameters as it extends distally combined with increased strut density to achieve increased flexibility distally while reducing loss of radial stiffness. The stent may further be placed with an additional stent segment, where the additional stent segment has a radial force similar to the radial force of the highly flexible force segment.

Claim (Index 26):
A device, comprising:\n an elongate tubular wall structure defining a lumen extending therethrough, the elongate tubular wall structure having a firm region, a transition region and a flexible region, wherein the transition region extends between the firm and flexible regions, and having a first step down region between the firm region and the transition region and a second step-down region between the transition region and the flexible region; wherein the firm region has a first substantially constant thickness, the transition region has a second substantially constant thickness and the flexible region has a third substantially constant thickness; wherein the first thickness is greater than the third thickness and contributes to a radial stiffness of the firm region being greater than a radial stiffness of the flexible region; and wherein the first step-down region has a first step-down thickness that varies from the first thickness to the second thickness and the second step-down region has a second step-down thickness that varies from the second thickness to the third thickness.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94118
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15861465', '15712704', '12939894', '15256873', '13100132']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8235269766999612
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5300038196280255
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7941746609927677
- Mean Citation Score: 330.34993000000014
- Max Citation Score: 428.0917
- Similarity Product: 316.4368860128224

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