PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15772857
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["600", "204000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a vacuum-actuated surgical grasper includes a suction head adapted to interface with patient tissue, a suction tube connected to and in fluid communication with the suction head, and a handle connected to the suction tube, the handle comprising an internal passage in fluid communication with the suction tube through which fluid from the suction tube can flow and a pivotable actuation lever that controls this flow through the passage.

Claim (Index 17):
The grasper of  claim 16 , further comprising a tube engagement member provided within the handle body, wherein the tube engagement member is urged into the flexible vent tube by the actuation lever when the actuation lever is pivoted away from the initial, unactuated position such that the tube engagement member crimps the flexible vent tube as the lever is pivoted to limit fluid flow through the flexible vent tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87805
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10230682', '11471513', '13940639', '14019404', '15195898']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4791151122627267
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4872788750224424
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4799314885386982
- Mean Citation Score: 192.875872
- Max Citation Score: 208.00977
- Similarity Product: 132.9804204499197

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

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