PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16443755
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["128", "202160"]

Abstract:
A cleaning device, system and method for use with an ETT or tracheostomy ventilation tube  60,  a ventilator machine  900,  a source(s)  602  of fluid (for example, pressurized or unpressurized) and a source(s) of suctioning  603  is disclosed. In some embodiments, the cleaning device is useful for cleaning an inner surface of the ventilation tube  60  and/or for preventing or hindering the accumulation of biofilm thereon. In some embodiments, it is possible to clean biofilm or any other material on the inner surface  201  by delivering fluid into an interior of the ventilation tube, wiping the tube interior with a width-expanded wiping element (e.g. an inflated balloon) by longitudinal motion of the wiping element, and suctioning material out of the ventilation tube ventilation tube.

Claim (Index 5):
The wiping device of  claim 4 , wherein the fluid source comprises a gas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05634
- Patent Class: 128.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14008558', '15069150', '14993757', '13806958', '11538366']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6574894415026199
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5403513642523423
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6457756337775922
- Mean Citation Score: 300.648732
- Max Citation Score: 424.80847
- Similarity Product: 276.8736925386983

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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