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 1):
A biopsy needle assembly, comprising:\n a needle formed from a superelastic alloy, the needle including:\n a body portion extending from a distal end of the needle to a proximal end of the needle, and \n an inner surface of the needle forming a lumen extending through at least a portion of the body portion to an opening in the distal end, wherein the lumen and the opening are configured to acquire a tissue biopsy; \n an elongate member attached at the proximal end of the needle; and a tubular jacket including an interior channel, wherein:\n in a first configuration, the distal end of the needle is positioned within the interior channel, and \n in a second configuration, in response to distal movement of the elongate member through the interior channel, the distal end of the needle is extended beyond a distal end of the tubular jacket.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.35714
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13773997', '15441025', '14729860', '15284466', '11304218']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4996362748538177
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4674202477308218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4964146721415181
- Mean Citation Score: 193.638158
- Max Citation Score: 202.29982
- Similarity Product: 157.23601414598826

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

Dataset: test