PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893187
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["206", "363000"]

Abstract:
Devices and methods for protecting and transporting medical probes including, but not limited to, ultrasound transducers and more specifically ultrasound transducers designed for transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). A transport apparatus may include a housing for protecting a control housing of a medical probe and an elongate member extending from the housing. The elongate member may be configured to engage the insertion tube of the probe and maintain an arch shape of the insertion tube during transport to prevent damage from over-flexing of the insertion tube.

Claim (Index 7):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the first fastening mechanism comprises a first snap latch disposed upon the housing and the second fastening mechanism comprises a corresponding second snap latch disposed adjacent to the distal end of the elongate member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68519
- Patent Class: 206.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12030728', '12834384', '14785366', '10171330', '12551819']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7782672503025273
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4915244267142857
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7495929679437032
- Mean Citation Score: 144.36620200000004
- Max Citation Score: 146.92401
- Similarity Product: 89.4433167800367

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