PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "245000"]

Abstract:
A method of controlling an end effector of a robotically-controlled surgical instrument may include receiving a first input signal indicative of a high grip level input at a master grip input mechanism that controls a slave gripping force of the end effector; receiving a second input signal indicative of a user's readiness to operate the surgical instrument to perform a first surgical procedure; and outputting a locking signal in response to receiving the first input signal and the second input signal together to lock one or more degrees of freedom of the surgical instrument during the first surgical procedure.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 5 , wherein the feedback comprises at least one of visual, auditory, and haptic feedback that indicates arming of one or more of the cutting blade and stapler mechanism.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9434
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15805371', '13655999', '15090059', '13483455', '15150002']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4838910676574381
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5663892610977378
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4921408870014681
- Mean Citation Score: 405.971304
- Max Citation Score: 487.16412
- Similarity Product: 354.9069056573296

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

Dataset: test