PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16148202
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["604", "540000"]

Abstract:
An external catheter stabilizer device for stabilizing and retaining a catheter tube at a stoma includes a base portion that is attached at a central portion via at least two legs. The base portion is configured to be affixed at a patient so as to generally surround a stoma. The central portion has a passageway therethrough that is configured to receive a tube that passes through the stoma. The central portion may include a disinfecting wiping element for receiving and wiping the tube as it is inserted through the passageway and into the stoma. The central portion may include flexible tabs that deflect to enlarge an effective diameter of the passageway and that are biased radially inward to retain the tube thereat. The device may have pads coupled to the respective legs via an elastomeric connecting element to allow for adjustment of the pads relative to the legs.

Claim (Index 18):
The external catheter stabilizer device of  claim 12 , wherein said central portion comprises a plurality of flexible tabs at said passageway, and wherein said flexible tabs are flexible between an initial state, where said flexible tabs cooperate to establish a first effective diameter of said passageway, and an expanded state, where said flexible tabs cooperate to establish a second effective diameter of said passageway that is larger than the first effective diameter, and wherein, when the tube is inserted into said passageway, said flexible tabs deflect to expand to the expanded state so as to receive the tube in said passageway, and wherein said flexible tabs are biased toward the initial state and toward the tube to retain the tube at said passageway.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08108
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15680704', '11085700', '15958351', '10216405', '11299708']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8204898703535798
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.576990521382961
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7961399354565178
- Mean Citation Score: 328.297146
- Max Citation Score: 621.02124
- Similarity Product: 383.49583361530784

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

Dataset: test