PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16066860
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["606", "200000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems, methods and devices for providing embolic protection in a patient, and implantation of devices (and systems thereof) for enabling such functionality. In some embodiments, a device is configured for implantation in a body vessel including fluid flow. The device may assume, or be constrained to assume, an un-deployed state and a deployed state. In the un-deployed state, the device or a portion thereof is configured to reside in the lumen of a thin needle or cannula having a diameter of less than about 0.5 mm (for example). The needle may include a curved portion. In the deployed state, the device has an axis which, when implanted, is positioned approximately parallel to the fluid flow of the vessel. In some embodiments, the device comprises a thin filament body whereby in a deployed state, at least a portion of the filament takes on a helical shape. In some embodiments, at least one helix coil has height or pitch greater than the coil diameter. In some embodiments, the device has a monofilament filter portion including at least one coil whose center is off the helix axis. The device may be made of a super-elastic alloy so that the device can transition between the un-deployed and the deployed states without plastic deformation (in at least some embodiments). In some embodiments, the device is configured for transcatheter delivery.

Claim (Index 22):
An embolic protection device (EPD) configured for arrangement within a blood vessel, the EPD comprising:\n a filament configured to include:\n an un-deployed state comprising a portion configured to fit within a lumen of a needle or a tube; and \n a deployed state comprising a support portion and a filter portion, \n wherein\n the support portion is shaped as a helix having an axis, \n the helix including at least a portion of a coil of the helix whose height exceeds its diameter, \n at least one coil of the helix includes a diameter which exceeds the diameter of the vessel for which the EPD is placed, \n the filter portion comprises a plurality of coils whose diameters decrease in the direction towards the proximal or the distal end of the EPD, \n a reducing element comprising at least one reducing coil of the helix whose center is off the helix axis, and \n the diameters of the plurality of tapering coils and the at least one reducing coil are smaller than the diameter of the artery.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45794
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14552890', '14947678', '14563513', '15452086', '14802978']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7771443499340054
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.548869067799084
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7543168217205133
- Mean Citation Score: 331.544826
- Max Citation Score: 379.68002
- Similarity Product: 303.50556091694364

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

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