PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872501
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["623", "002400"]

Abstract:
A prosthetic valve comprises a valve body, comprising a tubular frame and a plurality of leaflets; an upstream support, comprising a second frame; and a flexible sheet that couples the upstream support to the valve body. The prosthetic valve is compressible into a delivery tool such that the prosthetic valve is in a compressed state in which the second frame and the tubular frame are arranged in series within the tool, and the valve body has a compressed body-diameter. The prosthetic valve is deployable from the tool such that the prosthetic valve automatically expands into an expanded state. In the expanded state, the second frame defines an inner perimeter, the sheet extends inwardly from the inner perimeter to the valve body, and the prosthetic valve defines a conduit through the upstream support and the valve body. Other embodiments are also described.

Claim (Index 180):
Apparatus for use at a native valve of a heart of a subject, the apparatus comprising a prosthetic valve that comprises:\n a valve body, comprising:\n a tubular frame that (i) has an upstream region that includes an upstream end, (ii) has a downstream region that includes a downstream end, and (iii) defines a lumen between the upstream end to the downstream end, and \n a plurality of prosthetic leaflets coupled to the tubular frame, and arranged to facilitate upstream-to-downstream fluid flow through the lumen; \n an upstream support:\n comprising an annular frame that is distinct from the tubular frame, \n being shaped to be placed against an upstream surface of the native valve; and \n a flexible sheet that couples the upstream support to the valve body, the prosthetic valve having (i) a compressed state for delivery to the heart, and (ii) an expanded state in which the sheet extends inward from the annular frame to the downstream region of the tubular frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 55.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56667
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15213791', '14161921', '15541783', '15703385', '14237258']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8149975845290195
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5267651583134315
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7861743419074607
- Mean Citation Score: 325.95567
- Max Citation Score: 357.06577000000016
- Similarity Product: 299.5857954973186

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

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