PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16352219
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["128", "203120"]

Abstract:
Breathable medical circuit components and materials and methods for forming these components incorporate breathable foamed materials that are permeable to water vapor and substantially impermeable to liquid water and the bulk flow of gases. The materials and methods can be incorporated into a variety of components, including tubes, Y-connectors, catheter mounts, and patient interfaces and are suitable for use in a variety of medical circuits, including insufflation, anesthesia, and breathing circuits.

Claim (Index 18):
An expiratory limb for a breathing circuit for carrying humidified gases exhaled by a patient, the expiratory limb comprising:\n an inlet and an outlet; and a foamed-polymer conduit that is permeable to water vapor and substantially impermeable to liquid water and bulk flow of gas, such that the foamed-polymer conduit enables flow of humidified gas from the inlet to the outlet within a space enclosed by the foamed polymer conduit, wherein the foamed-polymer conduit is extruded and corrugated, the foamed-polymer conduit comprises a solid thermoplastic elastomer material and cell voids distributed throughout the solid material, the foamed-polymer conduit has an inner surface adjacent the enclosed space and an inner volume adjacent the inner surface, said inner volume representing a volume of a wall of said foamed-polymer conduit, at least some of the cell voids in the inner volume are connected to other cell voids, thereby forming open cell pathways promoting movement of water vapor through the wall of the foamed-polymer conduit, and the foamed polymer conduit further has an outer skin, adjacent the inner volume, in which the cell voids are closed so as to prevent transmission of liquid water and bulk flow of gas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6
- Patent Class: 128.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13517925', '13821674', '14777440', '14777438', '15816965']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5769890425583083
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6406515047387982
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5833552887763573
- Mean Citation Score: 301.100696
- Max Citation Score: 617.9933
- Similarity Product: 596.7393117284478

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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