PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16034854
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["606", "041000"]

Abstract:
An intravascular catheter for nerve activity ablation and/or sensing includes one or more needles advanced through supported guide tubes (needle guiding elements) which expand to contact the interior surface of the wall of the renal artery or other vessel of a human body allowing the needles to be advanced though the vessel wall into the extra-luminal tissue including the media, adventitia and periadvential space. The catheter also includes structures which provide radial and lateral support to the guide tubes so that the guide tubes open uniformly and maintain their position against the interior surface of the vessel wall as the sharpened needles are advanced to penetrate into the vessel wall. Electrodes near the distal ends of the needles allow sensing of nerve activity before and after attempted renal denervation. In a combination embodiment ablative energy or fluid is delivered from the needles in or near the adventitia to ablate nerves outside of the media while sparing nerves within the media.

Claim (Index 14):
The catheter of  claim 1 , further including the external electronic equipment, wherein the external electronic equipment is configured to be connected to the distal and at least one additional electrode through the at least one wire is adapted to both sense nerve activity from signals received by the distal and at least one additional electrode and provide electrical energy from the distal electrode and the at least one additional electrode to the nerves outside of a media of the vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70408
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14963179', '15947460', '14063907', '14841662', '15383528']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8527773621818333
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6437712191820592
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8318767478818558
- Mean Citation Score: 478.207522
- Max Citation Score: 582.443
- Similarity Product: 554.336885246396

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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