PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959594
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "114000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope particularly suited for endocranial procedures and a method of using the endoscope. In some examples the endoscope is rigid except for a bend/tilt portion near a distal end of a rigid tube that is inserted in a patient's cranium, which distal end is controlled in a degree and direction of tilt with a finger operated controller at the endoscope's handle. Some examples use telescoping tubes that allow customizing the endoscope size for specific procedures. A distal portion of the endoscope can be disposable, supplied in a sterile package for a single procedure, thus taking into account contamination dangers that are particularly high for intracranial and certain other interventions and the fact that it can be difficult or impossible to effectively autoclave heat-sensitive components of certain endoscopes or effectively sterilize them using other techniques.

Claim (Index 16):
An endocranial endoscope comprising:\n an outer tube having proximal and distal portions; a middle rigid tube telescoping within the outer tube between extended and retracted positions, and a sleeve extending distally from the middle tube; a stopper at a distal portion of the sleeve and a biasing element biasing the stopper in the distal direction; an inner tube within the sleeve, said inner tube being shaped, dimensioned, and configured for insertion into a patient's cranium; a suction/irrigation tube within the inner tube, configured to move between extended and retracted positions relative to the inner tube; an imaging module and an illumination module at a distal end of the inner tube, wherein the illumination module is configured to illuminate a field of view inside the patient's cranium and the imaging module is configured to take and supply images of the field of view for display to a user while the inner tube is inserted in a patient's cranium; a handle configured to be grasped by a user's hand and having a distal portion coupled to a proximal portion of the outer tube, and a proximal portion, said handle comprising:\n (i) a suction port coupler and an irrigation port coupler at a proximal portion of the handle, \n (ii) a user-operated suction and irrigation control configured to control flow between the suction/irrigation tube and the suction and irrigation ports, respectively, and \n (iii) a user-operated extension-retraction control operatively associated with the suction/irrigation tube to control a degree by which a distal end of the suction/irrigation tube protrudes distally from the inner tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65517
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15364952', '12067804', '12923796', '13353154', '11544897']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4231927478449694
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.570923516005297
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4379658246610022
- Mean Citation Score: 269.16785
- Max Citation Score: 463.1192
- Similarity Product: 432.47737350616455

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