PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027139
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["607", "113000"]

Abstract:
A biocompatible medical device can be at least partially implantable into a living human or animal subject to provide active treatment of biofilm that can occur use within the subject. The medical device can include a catheter, including an interior conduit capable of permitting fluid flow. A heating device can be located on a portion of the catheter to be located within the subject, the heating device including at least a pair of electrodes having a variable spacing therebetween, the variable spacing specified to allow heat to be generated using a time-varying electromagnetic input signal providing a variable frequency to control a variable location along the electrodes at which heat is generated, such as can provide a virtual matrix of local heat sources.

Claim (Index 1):
A medical device that is at least partially insertable or implantable into a living human or animal subject to generate heat in vivo within the subject, the medical device comprising:\n an elongate body, sized and shaped to include a biocompatible distal portion that is configured to be insertable or implantable into the subject; and a matrix of local heat sources, formed on the insertable or implantable biocompatible distal portion of the elongate body, the local heat sources selectively actuatable individually or in groups in response to an electromagnetic input signal communicated toward the local heat sources from a proximal end of the elongate body, without requiring concurrent actuation of all of the local heat sources.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78082
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11131314', '13641000', '13279023', '12751711', '11821401']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6622342926529341
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4631008462416043
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6423209480118012
- Mean Citation Score: 138.98451200000002
- Max Citation Score: 149.2843
- Similarity Product: 107.8544048382938

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

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