PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16202967
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["623", "001140"]

Abstract:
A method of crimping an implantable prosthetic valve can include placing protective material over at least a portion of the implantable prosthetic valve. The protective material can be configured to occupy space between open cells of a frame of the implantable prosthetic valve to prevent damage to a leaflet structure of the implantable prosthetic valve. The method can also include crimping the implantable prosthetic valve with the protective material on the implantable prosthetic valve, and removing the protective material from between the frame and the leaflet structure of the implantable prosthetic valve.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 13 , wherein suturing the upper edge portion of the skirt member to struts of the second row of angled struts comprises partially wrapping the upper edge portion of the skirt member around the struts of the second row of angled struts.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34146
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16202928', '13167549', '12480603', '16202980', '15984716']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8779272481485868
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5708304183555593
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.847217565169284
- Mean Citation Score: 522.3512820000002
- Max Citation Score: 567.0167
- Similarity Product: 415.8709269742727

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

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