PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126647
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
Embodiments include a surgical instrument having an end effector, the end effector including a first jaw having a first end, a second end, and an anvil, the anvil having an anvil face, a second jaw having a first end, a second end, and a cartridge to house a plurality of staples, the cartridge having a cartridge face, a first coupling that couples the first end of the first jaw to the first end of the second jaw, and a second coupling that movably couples the second end of the first jaw to the second end of the second jaw, where the second coupling includes a rigid link, an elongate tube, where a distal end is coupled with the end effector, a handle, where a distal end of the handle is coupled with a proximal end of the elongate tube, and a drive assembly comprising a motor.

Claim (Index 17):
The surgical instrument of  claim 11 , wherein the rigid link comprises an angled surface operably configured such that when the angled surface of the rigid link engages the elongate tube coupled with the end effector, the end effector transitions from an open position to a closed position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.62222
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16126604', '13967449', '12894367', '13971022', '13971006']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9408000619117708
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.536143823949125
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9003344381155063
- Mean Citation Score: 429.430364
- Max Citation Score: 529.2029
- Similarity Product: 382.02241878675216

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

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