PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200366
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["623", "002110"]

Abstract:
An assembly for delivering a prosthetic heart valve to a native heart valve is disclosed. The assembly includes a self-expanding prosthetic heart valve formed with an expandable metallic stent and a flexible valvular structure. The assembly also includes a delivery apparatus having a delivery sleeve. The delivery sleeve includes a selectively steerable section and a distal portion for retaining the prosthetic heart valve in a compressed state. A handle is coupled to a proximal end of the delivery sleeve and a pull wire extends from the handle to the steerable section of the delivery sleeve. The handle preferably includes a rotatable portion for actuating the pull wire and thereby selectively controlling a curvature of the steerable section during advancement through the patient's vasculature. In preferred embodiments, the steerable section includes a flexible metallic tubular portion formed with a plurality of circumferentially extending openings.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of implanting a balloon expandable prosthetic valve within a native aortic valve in a patient, the method comprising:\n introducing a delivery system into a femoral artery of the patient, the delivery system comprising an outer sleeve comprising a selectively steerable distal end portion, the delivery system further comprising a balloon catheter extending through a central lumen in the outer sleeve, wherein a distal end portion of the balloon catheter is positioned distal to a distal end of the steerable distal end portion, and a prosthetic valve is crimped over a balloon disposed along the distal end portion of the balloon catheter; advancing the prosthetic valve through the femoral artery until the prosthetic valve reaches an aortic arch of the patient; actuating a pull wire for selectively controlling a curvature of the steerable distal end portion so as to advance the prosthetic valve through the aortic arch, the pull wire having a distal end portion fixedly connected to the steerable distal end portion; positioning the prosthetic valve at a target site within the native aortic valve; and radially expanding the prosthetic valve by inflating the balloon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12855378', '16200431', '13774848', '16200458', '11152288']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8822607955198433
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6051505733699106
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8545497733048499
- Mean Citation Score: 571.065026
- Max Citation Score: 587.43896
- Similarity Product: 541.5316357546901

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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