PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16039234
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["604", "506000"]

Abstract:
An intravascular catheter for peri-vascular and/or peri-urethral tissue ablation includes multiple penetrators advanced through supported guide tubes which expand around a central axis to engage the interior surface of the wall of the renal artery or other vessel of a human body allowing the injection an ablative fluid for ablating tissue, nerve sensing, nerve stimulation, or ablation by application of energy. The catheter can include a proximal handle for the advancement of guide tubes and penetrators.

Claim (Index 1):
A catheter comprising:\n a catheter body having a central axis extending in a longitudinal direction, a distal portion including at least one guide tube having a distal end, at least one guide tube movable between a first position within the catheter body and a second position inclined away from the catheter body, wherein the at least one guide tube is configured to be positioned with the distal end in proximity to an inside wall of a target vessel; at least one penetrator configured to penetrate the inside wall of the target vessel, a portion of the at least one penetrator located coaxially inside of the at least one guide tube, and a proximal handle adapted to advance and retract the at least one guide tube and the at least one penetrator, the proximal handle comprising an unlock mechanism having a locked state and an unlocked state, the proximal handle also having a movement mechanism configured to allow the relative longitudinal movement of the at least one guide tube with respect to the catheter body and the at least one penetrator with respect to the at least one guide tube, the movement subject to the unlock mechanism being in the unlocked state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.39655
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14063907', '14320085', '14266726', '14320093', '13342521']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7917234143401821
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4912376035521729
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7616748332613812
- Mean Citation Score: 257.13509400000004
- Max Citation Score: 284.61597
- Similarity Product: 241.58734620807053

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

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