PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044845
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["422", "536000"]

Abstract:
A tissue modification apparatus includes at least a first plurality of grippers aligned in a plane adapted to secure a first edge of a patch of tissue. The plurality of grippers are each secured to a first force actuator. The first plurality of grippers are each adapted to pivot relative to the first force actuator about an axis perpendicular to the plane. In some cases, a plurality of grippers are attached to a force actuator by a passive force transfer mechanism. In some cases, individual force actuators are attached by pivoted connections to individual grippers. Methods of treating tissue can secure tensioned tissue to a frame to retain the tension during a treatment (e.g., cross-linking the tissue with a chemical cross-linker).

Claim (Index 8):
The tissue modification apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein each of the grippers is secured to a distal end of a beam, each beam being pivotally connected to a force divider.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09524
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15250382', '14481477', '15272772', '15340242', '15272747']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7929447815980531
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5233274868093989
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7659830521191877
- Mean Citation Score: 219.574196
- Max Citation Score: 363.16614
- Similarity Product: 248.366032410028

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

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