PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014201
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["606", "191000"]

Abstract:
A vascular plug comprises a superstructure expandable from a collapsed percutaneous insertion configuration to an expanded deployment or use configuration. The superstructure is comprised of both primary and secondary three-dimensional shapes allowing for the occlusion of a wide range of vessel sizes from small to large through a disproportionately small delivery catheter. The plug includes a shape memory element for the generation of radial force and the creation of the larger secondary three-dimensional twisting or helical superstructure as is needed for target vessel occlusion.

Claim (Index 1):
A medical device comprising a superstructure expandable from a collapsed insertion configuration to a fully expanded deployment or use configuration,\n said insertion configuration being sufficiently small to enable percutaneous introduction into a patient's vascular system, said fully expanded deployment or use configuration being sufficiently large to extend across a target blood vessel and engage an endothelial surface of such blood vessel, said insertion configuration of said superstructure taking the form of a collapsed self-expanding tubular structure expandable to said fully expanded deployment or use configuration, said fully expanded deployment or use configuration being a three-dimensional twisted or helical form of said tubular structure, said twisted or helical form of said tubular structure having a plurality of turns or windings of respective outer diameters, said plurality of turns or windings including at least one terminal turn or winding at at least one of two opposite ends of said twisted or helical form of said tubular structure and further including at least one center turn or winding intermediate said two opposite ends, said at least one center turn or winding having an outer diameter that is larger than a largest outer diameter of said at least one terminal turn or winding, said fully expanded deployment or use configuration having an arcuate envelope or shape that tapers down at said at least one of said two opposite ends from said at least one center turn or winding.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52632
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11662849', '11111487', '11662847', '11185160', '13845162']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8049597577828551
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4833702281032859
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7728008048148982
- Mean Citation Score: 258.24751000000003
- Max Citation Score: 268.92932
- Similarity Product: 191.4049215614486

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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