PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876364
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["600", "204000"]

Abstract:
A surgical access port and method for achieving articulation is disclosed, the surgical access port including a housing, at least one lumen extending through the housing, and an articulation structure. The housing comprises an access member having a proximal end and a distal end, and defines a longitudinal axis. The lumen in the housing extends from the proximal to the distal end of the access member along the longitudinal axis. The articulation structure comprises a first tubular member and a second tubular member, the second tubular member hingably attached to the first tubular member, and an articulation element slidably attached to the first tubular member.

Claim (Index 1):
A surgical access port comprising:\n an access member having proximal and distal ends; and an articulation mechanism at least partially received in the access member, the articulation mechanism including:\n a first tubular member; \n a second tubular member distal of the first tubular member, the second tubular member rotatably coupled with the first tubular member; and \n a flexible pusher operatively coupled with the second tubular member, wherein relative movement between the flexible pusher and at least one of the first or second tubular members transitions the articulation mechanism between a first position, in which, the first and second tubular members are axially aligned and a second position, in which, the first and second tubular members are axially offset from one another.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39583
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14927560', '13735079', '13412093', '13235590', '15005048']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5307191676583646
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5330763564662628
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5309548865391545
- Mean Citation Score: 335.961846
- Max Citation Score: 400.26093
- Similarity Product: 328.9247435696304

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