PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140095
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["606", "041000"]

Abstract:
Various catheters with expandable and contractible fluid pathways extending therethrough, and methods of use, are provided herein. In an exemplary embodiment, a catheter is provided with an elongate body having an electrode at the distal end thereof. One or more expandable members or wings can extend between the electrode and the distal end of the elongate body. The catheter can also include an actuator extending therethrough and coupled to the electrode such that movement of the actuator is effective to advance and retract the electrode, thereby moving the one or more expandable members between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The catheter can also include a fluid sealed lumen formed therein and configured to receive fluid and to deliver fluid to one or more pathways formed in the electrode. The actuator can extend through the fluid sealed lumen, however it can be fluidly separated from the lumen. The fluid sealed lumen can be configured to expand and collapse with movement of the electrode, while allowing movement of the actuator therethrough.

Claim (Index 9):
A catheter, comprising:\n an elongate body having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending between the proximal and distal ends; an end effector assembly at least partially disposed within the distal end of the elongate body, the end effector assembly including an expandable housing having a fluid sealed lumen therein, the housing having an inlet configured to allow fluid flow into the fluid sealed lumen and having an electrode at a distal end thereof with at least one fluid pathway extending therethrough and configured to allow fluid flow out of the fluid sealed lumen; and at least one expandable member extending between the distal end of the elongate body and the electrode; wherein the electrode is configured to distally advance and proximally retract relative to the elongate body to thereby move the housing between a collapsed configuration when the electrode is distally advanced and an expanded configuration when the electrode is proximally retracted.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32911
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12939121', '12936666', '10952492', '14201371', '12024974']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.809876063655196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.487267286570626
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7776151859467391
- Mean Citation Score: 275.00207
- Max Citation Score: 300.6459
- Similarity Product: 231.49507935923336

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