PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942217
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["604", "164030"]

Abstract:
The device includes a dilator having a locking mechanism configured to limit a distance a guidewire can be advanced out of a distal end of the dilator.

Claim (Index 1):
An access device for placing a medical article within a body space, the access device comprising:\n a dilator having a hub and an elongated dilator body extending from the hub; a guidewire being configured to slide within the elongated dilator body and having a guidewire stop, the guidewire stop being receivable through the elongated dilator body the guidewire stop being shaped to enlarge a cross-sectional dimension of the guidewire relative to adjacent sections of the guidewire; and a locking mechanism being removably engaged with and being supported by the dilator prior to the dilator being threaded over the guidewire, the locking mechanism comprising a guidewire lock and a portion having an opening extending therethrough, the opening being of a size and shape configured to receive the guidewire and to inhibit the guidewire stop from passing through the opening, the locking mechanism being configured to interlock with the guidewire by interaction between the guidewire lock and the guidewire at least when the dilator is threaded over the guidewire the guidewire lock having at least one member being moveable between an engaged state and a non-engaged state and being biased toward the engaged state in which the guidewire lock interacts with the guidewire, the locking mechanism and the dilator further being configured to permit removal of the locking mechanism from the dilator by moving the guidewire axially in a proximal direction relative to the dilator with the guidewire stop abutting at least part of the portion of the locking mechanism that the opening extends through.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.27273
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12106196', '15703026', '13185358', '14543576', '13577653']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8416333081076875
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5207454719634925
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8095445244932681
- Mean Citation Score: 347.64087
- Max Citation Score: 358.49402000000015
- Similarity Product: 288.111248403504

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