PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767934
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["606", "167000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are provided to facilitate the minimally invasive removal of tissue and to facilitate the direct approach to anesthetizing a body wall of a patient. A pull-type cutting device also is disclosed to introduce an opening into the body wall to provide access for intra-chest surgical interventions, for example a minimally invasive biopsy technique as also described for excising target tissue from within a patient, including a nodule from within the patient's lung.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , further comprising withdrawing the tissue anchor, the excision device and the dilation catheter in tandem until the target tissue arrives outside a body of the patient.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53846
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11996944', '11286445', '14814349', '15530336', '11178243']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7887847908513992
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5316590976006016
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7630722215263195
- Mean Citation Score: 252.73858400000003
- Max Citation Score: 456.11523
- Similarity Product: 300.1788978838813

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