PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["600", "129000"]

Abstract:
A variety of tools and techniques are provided to support removal of ligamentum flavum in a spinal canal and other, similar tissue removal procedures.

Claim (Index 1):
A device comprising:\n a first tube having a proximal end for manipulation during a surgical procedure, a distal end for insertion into a surgical site, a hollow core, and an exit from the hollow core at the distal end; one or more flaps coupled to the distal end of the first tube; a second tube slidably disposed and concentric with the first tube; and a controller operably configured to move the one or more flaps relative to the first tube between an undeployed state where the one or more flaps are contained within a cross section normal to a longitudinal axis of the first tube and a deployed state where the one or more flaps are at least in part disposed outside of the cross section to provide a mechanical separation between the distal end of the first tube and tissue surrounding a surgical site, wherein the second tube includes a plurality of elements that each mechanically mate with a corresponding element on one of the one or more flaps, such that sliding the second tube in a first direction relative to the first tube causes the plurality of elements to engage the one or more flaps and move each of the one or more flaps from the undeployed state to the deployed state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.13043
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14501865', '14501932', '13588969', '14550436', '14234014']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4973193986061066
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4663859891030785
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4942260576558038
- Mean Citation Score: 183.371742
- Max Citation Score: 188.71501
- Similarity Product: 141.73885047162952

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

Dataset: test