PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16198639
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["606", "232000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus for use with a deployment tool is provided. The apparatus includes a tissue anchor configured to be delivered in a constrained state within the deployment tool. The tissue anchor includes a shaft and a tissue-coupling element, which extends from a distal end of the shaft and is configured to be advanced through an incision in a wall of a cardiac chamber and be coupled to a far outer side of the wall. A spring is disposed proximal to a sealing element, and is configured to distally push the sealing element against an inner side of the wall to seal the incision. Other embodiments are also described.

Claim (Index 7):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising one or more tethers coupled to the tissue anchor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86885
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15104467', '15619881', '15264250', '15605315', '15147599']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.773300524809155
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5189243863388241
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7478629109621219
- Mean Citation Score: 294.3502660000001
- Max Citation Score: 375.99323
- Similarity Product: 283.4607550430518

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

Dataset: test