PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989912
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["607", "113000"]

Abstract:
A cardiac ablation method including the following steps: inserting a treatment catheter into an atrium of a heart, the treatment catheter including an ultrasound emitter; positioning the ultrasound emitter to face heart tissue within the left atrium outside of a pulmonary vein; emitting ultrasound energy from the ultrasound emitter while rotating the ultrasound emitter about a rotation axis; and ablating heart tissue with the ultrasound energy to form a lesion outside of a pulmonary vein.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein sensing the anile comprises sensing one or more amplitudes of the reflected sound energy, wherein the amplitude of the reflected sound energy depends on the of cardiac tissue which reflects the sound energy.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15654779', '13405712', '11747862', '11747867', '14083242']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7639261483547318
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5942855221188169
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7469620857311403
- Mean Citation Score: 519.5617399999999
- Max Citation Score: 555.243
- Similarity Product: 451.5793048945069

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

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