PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102521
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["134", "006000"]

Abstract:
A single piece device enables medical clinicians to clean and disinfect both an injection port (needleless I.V. connector) and a vascular access catheter hub. The device has a body with a first end having a blind hole with a wall adapted to be engageable with the threads on the housing of an IV connector and a bottom surface adapted to engage the top surface of the IV connector. The device body has a second end defining a male-luer slip extending out of a recess. The male-luer slip is adapted to extend into a standard vascular access catheter hub such that it engages the inner walls of the catheter hub, and the recess is adapted to receive and be engageable with the outside thread element of the catheter hub.

Claim (Index 18):
A device for use in cleaning and disinfecting an intravenous (IV) connector having female luer having an external thread and a top surface, and for use in disinfecting a vascular access catheter hub having an internal wall and an external thread, said device consisting of:\n a single piece of non-particulating compressible material having pores infused with a disinfectant agent, said single piece of material having a body with a first end and a second end, said first end defining a blind hole having a side wall and a bottom surface, said side wall adapted to be engageable with the external thread of the IV connector, and said blind hole having a depth chosen such that when said blind hole extends completely over the external thread of the IV connector, the top surface of the IV connector engages said bottom surface of the blind hole, said second end defining an annular recess with a ring having an inner wall about the annular recess at the second end of said body, and a male-luer slip extending from inside said recess to outside of said recess, said male-luer slip having a base inside said recess and a tip beyond said ring, said male-luer slip adapted to extend into the vascular access catheter hub and engage the internal wall of the catheter hub with an interference fit, and said inner wall of said ring adapted to be engageable the external thread of the catheter hub when the male-luer slip engages the internal wall of the catheter hub.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91549
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14378850', '12683017', '13250097', '12841959', '15275518']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8393523179299955
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6051892053426575
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8159360066712618
- Mean Citation Score: 283.268172
- Max Citation Score: 510.9195
- Similarity Product: 502.04690646815305

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

Dataset: test