PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891150
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["604", "019000"]

Abstract:
A controllable stiffness catheter comprising a shaft comprising an inner sheath defining an access lumen, an outer sheath surrounding the inner sheath and defining an annulus therebetween, the annulus having a vacuum connection at which a vacuum is applied to the annulus, and a mechanical stiffener disposed at least at a portion of the annulus.

Claim (Index 41):
The catheter according to  claim 40 , wherein, responsive to the vacuum being applied to the annulus through the vacuum connection, the outer sheath compresses grains of the mechanical stiffener to stiffen the shaft at least at the portion at which the mechanical stiffener is disposed without straightening the shaft at the portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68571
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12822219', '15054983', '13919080', '11395903', '11233993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.871974648670309
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5421335329729385
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.838990537100572
- Mean Citation Score: 386.489874
- Max Citation Score: 423.5436
- Similarity Product: 312.54005047431

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