PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185506
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["606", "219000"]

Abstract:
A system for stapling tissue comprises a flexible endoscope and an operative head including a pair of opposed, curved tissue clamping jaws sized to pass through an esophagus, the jaws being moveable with respect to one another between an open tissue receiving configuration and a closed tissue clamping configuration, a first one of the curved jaws including a stapling mechanism and a second one of the jaws including a staple forming anvil surface, the stapling mechanism including staple slots through which staples are fired arranged in a row extending from a proximal end of the first jaw to a distal end thereof in combination with a control handle which, when the operative head is in an operative position within one of a patient's stomach and esophagus, remains outside the patient, the control handle including a first actuator for moving the jaws relative to one another and a second actuator for operating the stapling mechanism.

Claim (Index 27):
The apparatus of  claim 21 , further comprising one or more actuators including at least one of an actuator handle, a lever, a trigger, a knob or a cable.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 72.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11688
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15617835', '15018000', '11471126', '13856819', '11410346']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7936015391654785
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5504678254206066
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7692881677909913
- Mean Citation Score: 367.412918
- Max Citation Score: 426.85025
- Similarity Product: 335.3260537428558

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

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