PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941599
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["604", "510000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for guiding cannulation with a dialysis needle of an arteriovenous dialysis access graft subcutaneously implanted in a body of a subject. The guiding apparatus comprises an elongated body member comprising a base portion terminating in longitudinal edges, a distance between the longitudinal edges of the base portion being substantially equal to a lateral dimension of the aces graft, and an elongated tubular sleeve defining an pocket having a longitudinal dimension and a lateral dimension configured to receive the body member. The body member is adapted to be received in the pocket of the sleeve for securing adjacent the subcutaneous access graft such that the inner surface of the base portion is aligned with a cannulation point of the graft for guiding location of a needle insertion.

Claim (Index 4):
The guiding apparatus as recited in  claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the cannulation chamber and the body member comprise a substantially magnetic or paramagnetic material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07812
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14027986', '15450523', '15396791', '14310373', '13607783']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7848632981590916
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5437798567051514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7607549540136975
- Mean Citation Score: 299.27562400000005
- Max Citation Score: 411.36856
- Similarity Product: 272.3059790230131

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

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