PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891150
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["604", "019000"]

Abstract:
A controllable stiffness catheter comprising a shaft comprising an inner sheath defining an access lumen, an outer sheath surrounding the inner sheath and defining an annulus therebetween, the annulus having a vacuum connection at which a vacuum is applied to the annulus, and a mechanical stiffener disposed at least at a portion of the annulus.

Claim (Index 27):
The catheter according to  claim 24 , wherein the mechanical stiffener allows fluid between the inner sheath and the outer sheath to move about the mechanical stiffener.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68571
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12822219', '15054983', '13919080', '11395903', '11233993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8728522898229769
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.538695063153421
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8394365671560213
- Mean Citation Score: 386.489874
- Max Citation Score: 423.5436
- Similarity Product: 275.9947445035458

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

Dataset: test