PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15890171
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["424", "424000"]

Abstract:
The medical devices of the present disclosure are filled reservoirs such as a cylinder comprised of a polymer film which contains a reservoir of active agent, plus excipient, in some cases, for disease prevention, treatment, and/or contraception. The polymer film is permeable to the active agent after subcutaneous implantation of the device into a body. The cylinder is comprised by the lamination of one or two polymer films which are ultrasonically welded to contain the drug material. The use of an ultrasonic welding process enables sealing of the polymer films to create the closed cylinder. The medical device is useful for long term disease prevention, such as prevention of HIV infection.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for manufacturing a reservoir device for delivery of an active agent to a subject, the method comprising:\n imparting a vacuum to a first porous membrane positioned on a mold defining at least one cavity, wherein the first porous membrane takes a shape of the cavity in the presence of the vacuum; depositing an active agent into a portion of the first porous membrane that is received in the cavity; positioning a second porous membrane carried on a release liner over the active agent and in contact with the first porous membrane; applying an ultrasonic force to a release liner positioned over the porous membrane(s) in an area surrounding the active agent to create a welded seal to contain the active agent within the cavity; and releasing the welded porous membranes from the mold and the release liner to provide a reservoir device(s), the porous membranes allowing for diffusion of the active agent through the pores of the membrane when the reservoir device is positioned subcutaneously in a body of a subject.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76812
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12918369', '14073734', '15388298', '12864431', '12937955']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6128158228911392
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4936286733442702
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6008971079364522
- Mean Citation Score: 159.509728
- Max Citation Score: 169.06987
- Similarity Product: 112.34231286643389

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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