PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16043575
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["606", "051000"]

Abstract:
A method of surgery includes grasping tissue between tissue-treating plates of first and second jaw members. One or both of the jaw members includes a bifurcated body having first and second jaw components. Each jaw component includes a tissue-treating plate portion disposed thereon. The tissue-treating plate portions cooperate to define the tissue-treating plate of the jaw member. The method further includes energizing the tissue-treating plates of the first and second jaw members for conducting energy through grasped tissue to treat grasped tissue and separating grasped and treated tissue by rotating at least one of the first and second jaw components of the at least one jaw member relative to the other from an aligned orientation, wherein the tissue-treating plate portions are substantially co-planar relative to one another, to an angled orientation, wherein the tissue-treating plate portions are angled relative to one another.

Claim (Index 11):
A surgical instrument, comprising:\n an end effector assembly including first and second jaw members each including at least one tissue-treating plate, wherein the first and second jaw members are relatively movable between:\n a spaced-apart position; \n a first approximated position, wherein each of the at least one tissue-treating plates of the first jaw member is substantially parallel and aligned with a corresponding one of the at least one tissue-treating plates of the second jaw member and defines a first gap distance therebetween; and \n a second approximated position, wherein each of the at least one tissue-treating plates of the first jaw member is substantially parallel and offset relative to the corresponding one of the at least one tissue-treating plates of the second jaw member and defines a second, smaller gap distance therebetween, \n wherein at least one of the first or second jaw members is moved vertically to effect the relative movement between the spaced-apart position and the first approximated position, and wherein at least one of the first or second jaw members is moved vertically and at least one of the first or second jaw members is moved horizontally to effect the relative movement between the first approximated position and the second approximated position; and \n at least one protrusion configured to interact with the at least one of the first or second jaw members to urge at least one of the first or second jaw members to move horizontally during the relative movement of the first and second jaw members between the first approximated position and the second approximated position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30769
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14738201', '14793827', '14793859', '14543291', '13400290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7661997822110224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5565009217090325
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7452298961608234
- Mean Citation Score: 388.929976
- Max Citation Score: 479.93457
- Similarity Product: 424.9396737912601

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