PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905421
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["602", "053000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods and devices for skin tightening after incising or excising tissue portions from a subject. Exemplary methods and devices include tunable dressings having an adhesive layer and a regulatable layer or an unstretched layer that responds to one or more external stimuli to contract or expand the dressing, where the contraction or expansion can be uniform or non-uniform.

Claim (Index 54):
The method of  claim 40 , wherein the device comprises one or more shape memory polymer fibers or wires, and wherein contraction of said skin region is provided by aligning the one or more shape memory polymer fibers or wires along the one direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.34694
- Patent Class: 602.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14764866', '14910767', '13844019', '13844154', '15253525']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5504687441136706
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5613763909216559
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5515595087944691
- Mean Citation Score: 187.750226
- Max Citation Score: 398.99893
- Similarity Product: 261.49608945005355

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

Dataset: test