PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949443
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["156", "143000"]

Abstract:
The invention primarily is directed to a medical tubing adapted for insertion into a body tissue or cavity and method of manufacturing different variations of the tubing along a length of the tubing. The tubing comprises a plurality of individual, discrete, generally ring-shaped elements arranged in series and fused or bonded together forming a continuous tubular structure. The ring-shaped elements may include a combination of flexible and rigid ring-shaped elements assembled along different portions or sections of the tubular structure. In another aspect of the invention, the medical tubing may further comprise a secondary lumen and a pull wire to control the tubular structure. In another aspect of the invention, the ring-shaped elements may vary in diameter and/or composition in different portions or sections of the tubular structure.

Claim (Index 23):
The method of  claim 21 , wherein the wire comprises at least one of a metallic material and a second plastic material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04478
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12877245', '14223032', '11750847', '13965405', '12950782']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9126867555455368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4985566736205727
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8712737473530405
- Mean Citation Score: 240.250546
- Max Citation Score: 280.36758
- Similarity Product: 240.8107922925532

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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