PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959594
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "114000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope particularly suited for endocranial procedures and a method of using the endoscope. In some examples the endoscope is rigid except for a bend/tilt portion near a distal end of a rigid tube that is inserted in a patient's cranium, which distal end is controlled in a degree and direction of tilt with a finger operated controller at the endoscope's handle. Some examples use telescoping tubes that allow customizing the endoscope size for specific procedures. A distal portion of the endoscope can be disposable, supplied in a sterile package for a single procedure, thus taking into account contamination dangers that are particularly high for intracranial and certain other interventions and the fact that it can be difficult or impossible to effectively autoclave heat-sensitive components of certain endoscopes or effectively sterilize them using other techniques.

Claim (Index 11):
The endocranial endoscope of  claim 1 , wherein the tilt/bend controller is configured to cause a bend/tilt of a distal portion of the inner tube relative to a longitudinal axis of the outer tube in at least two directions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65517
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15364952', '12067804', '12923796', '13353154', '11544897']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4539655584227752
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5699295242074
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4655619550012377
- Mean Citation Score: 269.16785
- Max Citation Score: 463.1192
- Similarity Product: 410.8304664862156

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

Dataset: test