PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944566
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["600", "567000"]

Abstract:
Certain aspects relate to a superelastic medical instrument that of bending elastically through the tortuous pathways of an endoscope, returning to a straight shape upon deployment from the endoscope, and deploying straight along the axis of the end of the bronchoscope (within a tolerated margin) to distances of 2 cm or more.

Claim (Index 27):
The method of  claim 24 , wherein performing the second drive comprises alternating extending the needle into the biopsy site and retracting the needle from the biopsy site a plurality of times.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.35714
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13773997', '15441025', '14729860', '15284466', '11304218']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5243481405862053
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4896330774262183
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5208766342702066
- Mean Citation Score: 193.638158
- Max Citation Score: 202.29982
- Similarity Product: 126.59332167121411

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