PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16352586
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
An end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the end effector including an anvil that includes a first end, a second end, and a face, and a cartridge that is configured to house a plurality of staples and that includes a first end, a second end, and a face, and an engagement element that movably couples the first end of the anvil to the first end of the cartridge, and a knife, the knife having a first flange, a second flange, and a web including a cutting edge, and where the second end of the anvil is movably coupled to the second end of the cartridge, each of the anvil and the cartridge is insertable through a trocar, and the end effector is remotely operable from outside the patient.

Claim (Index 25):
The end effector of  claim 23 , wherein the third alignment portion is a first housing sized to retain at least a portion of the knife in a second position after tissue has been cut.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96491
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15920196', '15921000', '15129385', '15129366', '15633399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8655497678032628
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4992988550360249
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8289246765265389
- Mean Citation Score: 443.0270780000001
- Max Citation Score: 472.08017
- Similarity Product: 255.88872257120548

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