PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16235127
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["606", "199000"]

Abstract:
A method of treating a sinus cavity of a subject includes advancing a distal portion of a light source through a drainage pathway of a sinus cavity and into the sinus cavity and visually observing a transdermal light emitted from the light source. A distal portion of a substantially rigid inner guide member of a balloon dilation catheter is advanced into the drainage pathway, the balloon dilation catheter including a movable shaft including a balloon that is slidably mounted on the substantially rigid inner guide member. The movable shaft and balloon are advanced distally over the substantially rigid inner guide member to place a portion of the balloon in the drainage pathway whereby the balloon is inflated.

Claim (Index 40):
The method of  claim 38 , wherein repositioning comprises rotating the catheter device and light-fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 77.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28302
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14460912', '14468595', '15345322', '14468617', '13535076']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8547192613528317
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5421535678226542
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8234626919998139
- Mean Citation Score: 466.823422
- Max Citation Score: 491.34717
- Similarity Product: 334.984543165825

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

Dataset: test