PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862349
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["606", "167000"]

Abstract:
In the field of minimally invasive or laparoscopic surgery, in there exists several devices for the purposes of removing large tissues from the abdomen through the use of only small holes. All of these devices, to date, to the knowledge of the inventor have involved morcellation, or the breaking apart of these tissues into small pieces. The surgical device, through the use of a unique engulfing sheet or engulfing bag, has the capability of removing a tissue from the abdomen through small minimally invasive or laparoscopic incisions without the use of morcellation. The device relies upon mechanical energy to force a large object through a smaller hole without the necessity to break the object down into smaller pieces.

Claim (Index 1):
An engulfing sheet or engulfing bag for removing tissue with or without a series of guiding tracks and comprising of one or more layers of largely impenetrable materials, these materials may include single, alternating or repeating layers of metal, plastic, rubber, kevlar, or other materials in order to achieve the goals of flexibility, strength, and to a reasonable degree having the characteristic of being impenetrable, these materials may be fashioned into sheets of mesh, chain like sheets, three-dimensional woven sheets, sheets of connected plates, or other configurations to achieve the goals of flexibility, strength, and to a reasonable degree having the characteristic of being impenetrable, this engulfing sheet or engulfing bag may be of any shape or size, and may be designed to collaborate with a collapsible stabilizing harness, and/or a deployment tube in order to best be utilized to engulf objects with the patient's body, this engulfing sheet or engulfing bag may also contain guiding tracks which may be used to assist in removing the bag from the patient's body, possible interfacing with gears or rolling pins, in another configuration gears or rolling pins may simple interface with the surface of the bag, especially in configurations utilizing a chain-like or mesh-like bottom surface of the engulfing sheet or engulfing bag, this engulfing sheet or engulfing bag is used for the purpose of removing a large tissue mass from the patient's body by compressing the mass to a small diameter through a ring harness.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96923
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15664758', '15524558', '14986890', '14885072', '15094742']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7183207607530442
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4872107714045016
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6952097618181899
- Mean Citation Score: 172.15264800000003
- Max Citation Score: 189.78311
- Similarity Product: 111.07612309815109

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

Dataset: test