PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16167933
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["606", "041000"]

Abstract:
Ablation and visualization systems and methods to access quality of contact between a catheter and tissue are provided. In some embodiments, a method for monitoring tissue ablation of the present disclosure comprises advancing a distal tip of an ablation catheter to a tissue in need of ablation; illuminating the tissue with UV light to excite NADH in the tissue, wherein the tissue is illuminated in a radial direction, an axial direction, or both; determining from a level of NADH fluorescence in the illuminated tissue when the distal tip of the catheter is in contact with the tissue; and delivering ablation energy to the tissue to form a lesion in the tissue.

Claim (Index 24):
The method of  claim 23 , further comprising determining a relative amount of collagen and myocardium in the tissue.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0339
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14931325', '14689475', '13624902', '13624899', '11770604']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7635403717530171
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5250382046102132
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7396901550387368
- Mean Citation Score: 314.706364
- Max Citation Score: 401.09238
- Similarity Product: 260.04009244963294

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

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