PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16372093
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "065000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses provide improved navigation through tubular networks such as lung airways by providing improved estimation of location and orientation information of a medical instrument (e.g., an endoscope) within the tubular network. Various input data such as image data, EM data, and robot data are used by different algorithms to estimate the state of the medical instrument, and the state information is used to locate a specific site within a tubular network and/or to determine navigation information for what positions/orientations the medical instrument should travel through to arrive at the specific site. Probability distributions together with confidence values are generated corresponding to different algorithms are used to determine the medical instrument's estimated state.

Claim (Index 23):
A robotic medical system for bronchoscopy, the system comprising:\n a robotic arm comprising a plurality of segments, the robotic arm extending from a base; a robotically-controllable bronchoscope removably coupled to the robotic arm, the bronchoscope configured for insertion into a bronchial network of a patient, wherein a distal end of the bronchoscope is articulable; and a command console comprising a command module configured to allow an operator to remotely control the bronchoscope, wherein the command module is configured to allow the operator to remotely articulate the distal end bronchoscope, and wherein the command module comprises a trackball; a display; at least one computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions and at least one processor in communication with the at least one computer-readable medium and configured to execute the instructions to cause a navigation module to:\n display a model of the bronchial network; \n access a selected target location in the bronchial network; \n access a determined path from an entry point to the target location; \n receive input data related to a position of the bronchoscope from a plurality of data sources; \n determine the position of the bronchoscope within the bronchial network based on the input data from one or more of the plurality of data sources; \n display the determined position of the bronchoscope relative to the displayed model of the bronchial network; and \n display navigational guidance on the display, the navigational guidance comprising the determined path to the target location, a distance to the target location, an orientation of the bronchoscope, and depth data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7971
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15268238', '15669258', '15783903', '16023877', '15392674']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6198191835343604
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5440323060137561
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6122404957823
- Mean Citation Score: 297.77343600000006
- Max Citation Score: 394.29477
- Similarity Product: 274.63436973839885

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

Dataset: test