PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927756
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["606", "131000"]

Abstract:
Exemplary embodiments of method and apparatus are provided for resurfacing of skin that includes formation of a plurality of small holes, e.g., having widths less than about 1 mm or 0.5 mm. For example, such small holes can be produced using a mechanical apparatus that includes one or more abrading elements provided at the end of one or more rotating shafts, thus avoiding generation of thermal damage as occurs with conventional laser resurfacing procedures and devices. The holes thus formed can be well-tolerated by the skin, and may exhibit shorter healing times and less swelling than conventional resurfacing procedures. The fractional surface coverage of the holes can be between about 0.1 and 0.7, or between about 0.2 and 0.5. The method and apparatus can produce cosmetic improvements in the skin appearance by eliciting a healing response.

Claim (Index 29):
An apparatus for cosmetic resurfacing of a skin tissue, comprising:\n a housing; a plurality of shafts, each of which has an abrading element at a distal end thereof, wherein the abrading element is configured to contact a surface of the skin tissue to generate holes in the skin tissue by removing portions of the skin tissue while leaving surrounding tissue healthy; a drive arrangement configured to rotate each of the shafts around a longitudinal axis thereof; and a reciprocating arrangement configured to translate the shafts in a direction substantially along the longitudinal axis of the shafts, wherein the reciprocating arrangement is configured to control the protrusion distance of the shafts from a lower surface of the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77108
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13982070', '15393001', '15250882', '13982121', '15253525']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7772537224855338
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4915726521704802
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7486856154540285
- Mean Citation Score: 225.117024
- Max Citation Score: 326.28668
- Similarity Product: 266.0240544872236

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

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