PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16247265
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["600", "561000"]

Abstract:
A system for accessing a patient's uterine cavity and detecting perforations in the uterus includes an elongated probe having a flow channel extending to a terminal outlet in a distal region of the probe. A fluid source is coupled to the flow channel, and a seal on the probe is positionable in an endocervical canal. The probe may be trans-cervically inserted into the uterine cavity, and a fluid may be introduced through the channel to flow outwardly from the terminal outlet into the uterine cavity. A parameter of said fluid flow is monitored to detect a perforation in the uterus.

Claim (Index 19):
A method detecting perforations in a uterus, comprising:\n providing an elongated probe having a shaft and an energy applicator extending distally from shaft, at least one flow channel extending through the shaft, at least one flow outlet proximate a distal end of the shaft and at least one terminal flow outlet at a distal tip of the energy applicator; inserting the elongated probe through a cervical canal to position the energy applicator in a uterine cavity; delivering a fluid flow through the at least one flow channel after the energy applicator has been inserted into the uterine cavity, wherein the fluid flow can flow outwardly from each of the at least one flow outlet proximate the distal end of the shaft and the at least one terminal flow outlet at a distal tip of the energy applicator and wherein the fluid flow will be contained in the uterine cavity in the absence of perforations in a wall of the uterine cavity; and monitoring a rate of the fluid flow through the at least one flow channel while the energy applicator is in the uterine cavity, wherein the fluid flow drops to zero or close to zero in the absence of perforations but continues through at least one of the at least one outlet proximate a distal end of the shaft and the at least one terminal outlet at a distal tip of the energy applicator when a perforation is present.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94545
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15418635', '12616343', '13945244', '13442449', '12616318']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5639848336005108
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5840715267713831
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.565993502917598
- Mean Citation Score: 400.009068
- Max Citation Score: 518.59454
- Similarity Product: 472.3585851571489

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

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