PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16197244
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["623", "002110"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for delivering a prosthetic heart valve includes a steerable guide catheter, a balloon catheter, and a flex indicator. The guide catheter has a handle and a guide tube extending from the handle. The guide tube has a distal end portion comprising a steerable section. The guide catheter further includes an adjustment mechanism on the handle and a pull wire connecting the adjustment mechanism to the steerable section for changing flexion of the steerable section. The balloon catheter includes a shaft extending coaxially through the guide tube. The shaft includes a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The balloon catheter further includes a balloon mounted on the distal end portion of the shaft. The flex indicator moves relative to the handle upon adjustment of the adjustment mechanism. The handle includes visual indicia adjacent the flex indicator to provide visual indication of the flexion of the steerable section.

Claim (Index 8):
The apparatus of  claim 5 , wherein the adjustment mechanism further comprises a threaded shaft coupled to the knob, and wherein the flex indicator engages threads of the threaded shaft such that rotation of the knob rotates the threaded shaft, which causes the flex indicator to move axially relative to the handle portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.92727
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16197245', '14736117', '12247846', '11852977', '16017465']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.870585186492886
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6377719886323443
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8473038667068318
- Mean Citation Score: 476.042388
- Max Citation Score: 590.0439
- Similarity Product: 436.52170815235377

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

Dataset: test