PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16103644
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
Embodiments include an end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient, the end effector including a first jaw having a first end, a second end, a longitudinal axis, and an anvil having an anvil face; a second jaw having a first end, a second end, a longitudinal axis, and a cartridge operably configured 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 connected to the first jaw and the second jaw.

Claim (Index 26):
The end effector of  claim 21 , wherein the rigid link is a monolithically formed unitary structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13967449', '13971022', '13971006', '13967716', '14206713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9383603056424908
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4813989114768593
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8926641662259277
- Mean Citation Score: 394.70871
- Max Citation Score: 399.1881
- Similarity Product: 184.93216002722383

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

Dataset: test