PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16147403
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["606", "041000"]

Abstract:
According to some embodiments, a medical instrument (for example, an ablation device) comprises an elongate body having a proximal end and a distal end, an energy delivery member positioned at the distal end of the elongate body, a first plurality of temperature-measurement devices carried by or positioned within the energy delivery member, the first plurality of temperature-measurement devices being thermally insulated from the energy delivery member, and a second plurality of temperature-measurement devices positioned proximal to a proximal end of the energy delivery member, the second plurality of temperature-measurement devices being thermally insulated from the energy delivery member.

Claim (Index 2):
A method of heat removal from an electrode assembly during a tissue treatment procedure, the method comprising:\n delivering energy to an electrode assembly of an ablation system, the ablation system comprising a catheter comprising a distal end, the electrode assembly positioned along the distal end of the catheter; wherein the catheter of the ablation system comprises at least one thermal shunt member along its distal end, wherein the at least one thermal shunt member extends at least partially through an interior of the electrode assembly; and wherein the catheter further comprises at least one fluid passage extending at least partially through the interior of the electrode assembly and an interior of the at least one thermal shunt member; delivering a fluid through the at least one fluid passage; and transferring heat from the electrode assembly to the fluid via the at least one thermal shunt member to reduce the likelihood of localized hot spots along the distal end of the catheter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45455
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15336648', '15214376', '15382436', '15214358', '15179655']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8587766003022939
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5428738919856098
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8271863294706255
- Mean Citation Score: 428.426528
- Max Citation Score: 479.04944000000006
- Similarity Product: 373.31796249103553

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

Dataset: test