PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15747940
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["623", "001180"]

Abstract:
Urological (prostatic) implant, system, and method for retracting or/and supporting periurethral tissue enclosing a prostatic urethra along lengths of prostate lobes, for example, in BPH patients. Prostatic implant includes independently actuatable distal retractor incorporating craniolateral corners and proximal retractor incorporating caudolateral corners. Retractors may be connected via elongated spine member, and formed as paired curved wing-liked structures having interconnecting members. May further include tissue support members extending between elongated edge members connecting retractors to spine member, and tissue support members extending between elongated edge members and spine member. Tissue support members are sized and configured for supporting portions of prostatic lateral lobes when spine member engages anterior interlobar groove extending between prostatic lateral lobes, and when elongated edge members engage posterolateral interlobar grooves. System and method include implant manipulator detachably connected to implant elongated edge members, for manipulating and forcing implant caudolateral corners into close proximity, for delivery into subject.

Claim (Index 9):
An implant for retracting or/and supporting periurethral tissue enclosing a prostatic urethra along a length of prostate lobes, the implant comprising:\n an elongated spine member having a spinal longitudinal axis; a first elongated edge member and a second elongated edge member symmetrically opposing each other relative to said spinal longitudinal axis, each said elongated edge member is interconnected to said spine member via at least one interconnecting member; and at least one tissue support member extending between said first elongated edge member and said spinal longitudinal axis, and at least one other tissue support member extending between said second elongated edge member and said spinal longitudinal axis, wherein each said tissue support member is sized and configured for supporting a portion of a prostatic lateral lobe when said spine member engages an anterior interlobar groove that extends between prostatic lateral lobes in the prostate, and when said first and second elongated edge members engage corresponding posterolateral interlobar grooves.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85556
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15114107', '13845826', '14089760', '13831021', '12843581']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7700125802029119
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4948216675355509
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7424934889361758
- Mean Citation Score: 240.31817200000003
- Max Citation Score: 264.5977
- Similarity Product: 176.35820791760682

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

Dataset: test