PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16263300
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["227", "180100"]

Abstract:
Surgical staplers and methods of their use are provided. In one embodiment, a surgical stapler includes a tubular shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, a handle extending from the proximal end of the tubular shaft, a head assembly extending from the distal end of the tubular shaft, and an insertion guide configured to extend through the head assembly. The insertion guide includes an expandable member configured to move between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of introducing a surgical stapler into a patient, the method comprising:\n advancing an insertion guide through a head assembly of the surgical stapler, such that the insertion guide removably extends distally beyond a distal end face of the head assembly; moving an inflatable member of the insertion guide from a deflated configuration and an inflated configuration; and inserting the inflatable member and the head assembly into a tubular tissue structure of the patient while the inflatable member is in the inflated configuration such that the head assembly is positioned ready to receive an anvil.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91111
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14806819', '15273358', '14299713', '13181786', '12644236']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.897868154552501
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4524667537896389
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8533280144762148
- Mean Citation Score: 284.214338
- Max Citation Score: 298.05536
- Similarity Product: 214.1787724635888

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

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