PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15888527
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "566000"]

Abstract:
A medical device can include an actuator that is gripped and manipulated by an operator of the medical device. An outer cannula can extend from the actuator along an axis. The outer cannula can include a tissue reception port. An inner cannula can be located inside the outer cannula and extend in an axial direction. An inner lumen can be located inside the inner cannula and actuated to collect a tissue sample via the tissue reception port. In addition, a secondary lumen can be adjacent to the outer cannula and actuated to deploy a marker at a biopsy site via a marker deployment port. Tissue sampling and marker placement functions can be integrated within only one medical device such that the medical device is a single apparatus that performs both tissue sampling and marker placement functions.

Claim (Index 20):
A medical device, comprising:\n an actuator configured to be manipulated by an operator of the medical device; an outer cannula extending from the actuator along an axis, and the outer cannula comprises a hub mounted to the actuator, and a primary lumen extending through the outer cannula to a tissue reception port formed in the outer cannula, and the outer cannula comprises a variable axial shape along the axis, the variable axial shape comprises a proximal portion that is circular in radial sectional shape between the hub and a distal portion of the primary cannula, and the distal portion is a non-circular in radial sectional shape; an inner cannula located inside the outer cannula and extending in an axial direction, the inner cannula having an inner lumen extending through the inner cannula that is configured to be actuated to collect a tissue sample via the tissue reception port and transport the tissue sample; a marker placement device located adjacent to the primary lumen of the outer cannula, wherein the marker placement device is configured to be actuated to deploy a marker at a biopsy site via a marker deployment port; and tissue sampling and marker placement functions are integrated within the medical device such that the medical device consists of a single apparatus configured to perform both tissue sampling and marker placement functions, and the marker placement function is independent of and separately operable from the tissue sampling function.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18182
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11364123', '09776125', '10848278', '11865092', '12595010']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5505827723888674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4722974648334919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5427542416333299
- Mean Citation Score: 240.991244
- Max Citation Score: 245.72823
- Similarity Product: 214.5168258435524

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

Dataset: test