PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877105
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["030", "162000"]

Abstract:
A self-locking retractable surgical knife including a sheath member having front and rear ends, and a retractable member including a support member and a blade supported by the support member. The support member has a front end, a rear end and an elongated interior space. The retractable member is partially disposed in the sheath member and telescopically received in the sheath member for movement between a guarded position wherein the blade is guarded in the sheath member, and an exposed position wherein the blade extends out of the sheath member. The self-locking retractable further includes a biasing member disposed in the interior space of the support member and a latch member disposed in the interior space of the support member.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of assembling a retractable device, comprising:\n inserting a rear end of a retractable member into an opening at a front end of a sheath member, with an elongate top slot of the retractable member aligned with an elongate top slot of the sheath member; introducing a latch member into an interior space of the retractable member between a sliding pin and a rear end of the elongate top slot of the sheath member from the overlapped elongate top slots of the retractable member and the sheath member; and inserting a biasing member into the interior space of the retractable member through a biasing member introduction slot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64583
- Patent Class: 30.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15398296', '12114234', '10706354', '12620262', '13004084']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8102049859865005
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5712368112322358
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.786308168511074
- Mean Citation Score: 254.709158
- Max Citation Score: 513.6446
- Similarity Product: 388.4752444526792

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

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