PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873749
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["606", "170000"]

Abstract:
Described herein is combination sealing and stabilizing collar component designed to both prevent the leakage of vacuum through the interface between an endoscopic shaver device and a powered handpiece that provides rotational motion thereto and stabilize the endoscopic shaver device when it is mounted onto the powered handpiece. The collar may be further coupled with a conventional cannula to prevent the leakage of intra-articular fluid when performing an arthroscopic procedure.

Claim (Index 1):
An endoscopic shaver assembly comprising:\n a. an elongate tubular outer member characterized by a distal end having an outer cutting aperture formed therein, a proximal end that includes an outer hub configured for removable mounting within a cavity of an endoscopic shaver handpiece, and an elongate central lumen extending between said proximal and distal ends that defines the longitudinal axis of the shaver assembly, wherein the distal portion of said outer hub includes a first set of threads, further wherein distal axial movement of said outer member relative to said endoscopic shaver handpiece is precluded by means of an annular locking collet disposed about the outer periphery of said outer hub, further wherein said annular locking collet defines a gap between the outer periphery of said outer hub and an inner periphery of said collet; b. an elongate tubular inner member characterized by a distal end having an inner cutting aperture formed therein, a proximal end that includes an inner hub configured for receiving torque from said endoscopic shaver handpiece and a proximal port for transmitting suction from said endoscopic shaver handpiece to said inner cutting aperture via an elongate central lumen that extends between said proximal and distal ends of said inner member, wherein said inner member is slidably received within the central lumen of said outer member and axially extended such that said inner and outer cutting apertures align; and c. a combination sealing and stabilizing collar having a proximal end, a distal end, a central opening extending between said proximal and distal ends, a circumferential rim extending radially from said central opening characterized by proximally and distal facing surfaces, and a second set of threads complementary to and configured to engage with said first said of threads on said outer hub, wherein said combination sealing and stabilizing collar is mounted over the elongate outer member and positioned against the distal end of said outer hub, further wherein engaging said first and second sets of threads causes said proximal facing surface of said circumferential rim to be firmly seated against said annular locking collet and thereby seal the gap disposed between said outer hub and said annular locking collet and preclude lateral movement of outer member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41176
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15288509', '14224568', '15793504', '14582232', '13301156']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7824016763208913
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5452475280264759
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7586862614914498
- Mean Citation Score: 388.330192
- Max Citation Score: 447.34036
- Similarity Product: 366.5617619514322

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

Dataset: test