PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15747935
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["600", "229000"]

Abstract:
A surgical instrument assembly includes a frame system, and a surgical tool engageable with the frame system. The frame system is adapted for providing a surgical tool attachment and articulation locus that is maintained during the course of a surgical procedure to direct a fixed and repeatable delivery path for introduction and manipulation of one or more surgical instruments and implants at a surgical site in or on the patient's anatomy. The delivery path can be substantially curvilinear along an arc that is defined by a radius of curvature and length defined by the surgical tool, and a predetermined range of articulation of the tool at the articulation locus.

Claim (Index 15):
A surgical instrument assembly according to  claim 14 , each of the retractor body and retractor hood being independently operable to manipulate soft tissue and adapted to be adjustably and releasably coupled at their proximal ends with general alignment of their respective longitudinal axes, the retractor body and the retractor hood each comprising at its proximal end a coupling element for adjustably and releasably coupling the body and hood, one of the coupling elements comprising one or a plurality of fasteners, and the other of the coupling elements comprising one or a plurality of receivers,\n wherein when uncoupled, the retractor hood can be aligned with the retractor body and at least partially compressed against the retractor body, and wherein, when coupled, the retractor body and retractor hood are displaced from one another vertically and constrained to one or more of three degrees of freedom, being movable pivotally around a pivot axis at the proximal end that is essentially perpendicular to the channel longitudinal axis, displaceable vertically from between a compressed orientation up to a pre selected displacement distance, or slidable horizontally along the channel longitudinal axis, or combinations of these.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8254
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14791881', '13210938', '10720656', '12479445', '15288614']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4807396111618242
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4963853213628605
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4823041821819279
- Mean Citation Score: 219.043742
- Max Citation Score: 277.72513
- Similarity Product: 203.2608582051611

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

Dataset: test