PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767934
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["606", "167000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are provided to facilitate the minimally invasive removal of tissue and to facilitate the direct approach to anesthetizing a body wall of a patient. A pull-type cutting device also is disclosed to introduce an opening into the body wall to provide access for intra-chest surgical interventions, for example a minimally invasive biopsy technique as also described for excising target tissue from within a patient, including a nodule from within the patient's lung.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 13 , further comprising, after the tissue tract is dilated, inserting a fixed-diameter sleeve over the inflated dilation catheter to provide a fixed-diameter passageway along the tissue tract, thereafter deflating and withdrawing the inflation catheter from the tissue tract, and thereafter inserting therein an excision device up to the nodule, the excision device comprising a hollow sleeve having a circumferential cutting edge, and advancing the excision device until the nodule is disposed within the excision device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53846
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11996944', '11286445', '14814349', '15530336', '11178243']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7880703771835396
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5339046757572842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.762653807040914
- Mean Citation Score: 252.73858400000003
- Max Citation Score: 456.11523
- Similarity Product: 315.90351063078043

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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