PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986970
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["600", "473000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for visualizing ablated tissue are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system for imaging tissue comprising: a catheter having a distal end and a proximal end; an inflatable balloon disposed about the distal end of the catheter; and an optical housing extending from the distal end of the catheter into the balloon, the optical housing being configured to position inside the balloon a light source for illuminating a tissue outside the balloon and a camera for imaging the illuminated tissue.

Claim (Index 17):
A system for imaging tissue comprising:\n an elongated body having a distal end and a proximal end; an inflatable balloon disposed along the elongated body; an ablation device associated with the balloon for ablating a tissue; a light source providing light for illuminating the tissue having at least one wavelength sufficient to excite mitochondrial nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide hydrogen (NADH) in the tissue; a sensor for detecting NADH fluorescence from the illuminated tissue, the sensor being configured to receive light having at least one wavelength to detect the NADH fluorescence from the illuminated tissue; and one or more optical fibers to deliver the light from the light source to the tissue and to deliver the NADH fluorescence to the sensor, wherein the detected NADH fluorescence from the illuminated tissue is used to distinguish between ablated tissue and non-ablated tissue.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85417
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14689475', '13624902', '13624899', '14931325', '10233158']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5734383199281246
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6270934758896176
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5788038355242738
- Mean Citation Score: 498.967182
- Max Citation Score: 633.06964
- Similarity Product: 562.404174820528

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

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