PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["623", "002110"]

Abstract:
An assembly for delivering a prosthetic heart valve to a native heart valve is disclosed. The assembly includes a self-expanding prosthetic heart valve formed with an expandable metallic stent and a flexible valvular structure. The assembly also includes a delivery apparatus having a delivery sleeve. The delivery sleeve includes a selectively steerable section and a distal portion for retaining the prosthetic heart valve in a compressed state. A handle is coupled to a proximal end of the delivery sleeve and a pull wire extends from the handle to the steerable section of the delivery sleeve. The handle preferably includes a rotatable portion for actuating the pull wire and thereby selectively controlling a curvature of the steerable section during advancement through the patient's vasculature. In preferred embodiments, the steerable section includes a flexible metallic tubular portion formed with a plurality of circumferentially extending openings.

Claim (Index 11):
The medical assembly of  claim 10 , wherein the tube portion of the loader comprises one or more flexible flanges, each flange having a snap member, and wherein a proximal end portion of the housing comprises one or more ridges configured to bear against one of the snap members of the one or more flanges to secure the tube portion to the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16200458', '16200431', '16200366', '14704866', '13774848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8782350593332646
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5849816649718435
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8489097198971225
- Mean Citation Score: 518.612386
- Max Citation Score: 562.9432
- Similarity Product: 376.3462893920898

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