PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16411803
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "646000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a dialyzer holder to attach a dialyzer to a dialysis machine. During priming of a bloodline prior to a dialysis treatment, the dialyzer holder grips a dialyzer in approximately the center of the dialyzer, but allows movements of the dialyzer in an arc motion using two axes of rotation. The holder enables the dialyzer to move to a position where air can be primed from the dialyzer and, because the dialyzer can move toward the dialysis machine, this motion eliminates stress on the tubing connected to the bottom and top of the dialyzer and reduces the length of bloodline tubing necessary to accommodate dialyzer movement. The dialyzer holder incorporates an attachment point for a venous chamber for use during the priming procedure, enabling the venous chamber to move with the dialyzer, further reducing the tubing between the dialyzer and the venous chamber.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of priming a dialysis machine, the method comprising:\n a) positioning a dialyzer in a dialyzer holder, wherein the dialyzer has a length, and wherein the dialyzer holder is connected to the dialyzer by a dialyzer attachment member and to the dialysis machine by a dialysis machine attachment member; b) connecting a blood line to a blood side of the dialyzer; c) connecting a dialysate line to a dialysate side of the dialyzer; d) connecting the blood line to a pump; e) while the dialyzer is in an upright position, introducing saline into the blood line to evacuate air from the blood line; f) rotating the dialyzer from the upright position to a first rotated position by rotating the dialyzer holder about a first rotational assembly having a first rotation axis perpendicular to the length of the dialyzer; g) rotating the dialyzer from the first rotated position to a second rotated position by rotating the dialyzer holder about a second rotational assembly having a second rotation axis perpendicular to the length of the dialyzer, whereby the second rotated position is more than 90\u00b0 from the upright position; h) introducing saline into the dialysate side to evacuate air from the dialysate side; and i) returning the dialyzer to the upright position by rotating the dialyzer holder about the first and second rotational assemblies, thereby priming the dialysis machine without disconnecting the blood line or the dialysate line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15068
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14774414', '15163128', '12884989', '14779271', '14511908']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7675270002250815
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5764077111786724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7484150713204406
- Mean Citation Score: 297.6085500000001
- Max Citation Score: 473.77045
- Similarity Product: 410.9630269004345

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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