PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16272980
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["604", "319000"]

Abstract:
A negative pressure wound therapy system includes a wound dressing and a suction device configured to be in fluid communication with the wound dressing via a conduit to channel a fluid between at least the wound dressing and the suction device. The suction device includes a vacuum connection configured to be coupled to the conduit, a vacuum pump, an analog electronic pressure sensor in electrical communication with the vacuum pump, and a passive valve assembly. The passive valve assembly is in fluid communication with (1) the vacuum pump, (2), the analog electronic pressure sensor, and (3) the vacuum connection, and is configured to maintain the vacuum pump in fluid communication with the vacuum connection within a predefined pressure range, and to passively inhibit fluid communication between the vacuum pump and the vacuum connection outside of the predefined pressure range.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of applying negative pressure wound therapy, the method comprising:\n (a) disposing a wound dressing over a wound site on a patient; (b) fluidically coupling the wound dressing to a canister; (c) fluidically coupling the canister to a suction device, thereby establishing a fluidic pathway; (d) supplying power to the suction device; (e) determining pressure in the fluidic pathway using a pressure sensor; (f) comparing the pressure to an upper threshold and a lower threshold; (g) powering on a pump of the suction device until the pressure meets the upper threshold; (h) after (g), powering off the pump until the pressure falls to the lower threshold; (i) repeating steps (e)-(h) to maintain the pressure in the fluidic pathway between the upper threshold and the lower threshold; and (j) terminating therapy by removing power to the suction device and relieving pressure in the fluidic pathway.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83636
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12486379', '15715319', '14819640', '15950290', '15187335']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8047137333400947
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4787254611100768
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7721149061170929
- Mean Citation Score: 222.881062
- Max Citation Score: 232.58588
- Similarity Product: 179.08868324079518

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

Dataset: test