PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16269808
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["623", "002110"]

Abstract:
Two minimally invasive therapeutic procedures, particularly for patients with congestive heart failure, may be performed separately or together. One procedure involves providing a valved passageway through the patient's left ventricular wall at the apex of the patient's heart and advancing instruments through the valved passageway to connect the valve leaflets of the patient's heart valve, e.g. the mitral valve. The second procedure involves advancing a pacing lead and a pacing lead implanting device through a trocar in the patient's chest and implanting the pacing lead on an exposed epicardial region of the patient's heart wall. The pacing lead has a penetrating electrode which is secured within the heart wall. Improved devices for these procedures include a minimally invasive grasping device for heart leaflets, a leaflet connector with artificial cordae tendenae and a pacing lead implant instrument.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for tensioning a mitral valve in a patient's heart, said method comprising:\n forming a passageway through an apical wall into a left ventricle of the heart; attaching a distal end of an artificial chordae to free ends of the leaflets of the mitral valve; securing a proximal end of the artificial chordae near or in the passageway, wherein the artificial chordae is sufficiently taut to position the leaflets to better seal the leaflets and minimize leakage through the mitral valve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91139
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12070680', '11285469', '10295390', '13871505', '11285438']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8439646755329709
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6035594303955204
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8199241510192259
- Mean Citation Score: 591.255128
- Max Citation Score: 615.17737
- Similarity Product: 500.0742781675589

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

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