PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935955
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "130000"]

Abstract:
A patient introducer for use with a surgical robotic system is disclosed. In one aspect, the patient introducer may include an introducer tube extending between (i) a distal end connectable to a port and (ii) a proximal end configured to receive a surgical tool. The introducer tube may be configured to guide the surgical tool into the port. The patient introducer may also include an alignment member connected to the introducer tube and including a first shape and a first alignment marking. The alignment member may be configured to interface with a manipulator assembly of a robotic system. The manipulator assembly may include a second shape and a second alignment marking, the first shape being complementary to the second shape. The first alignment marking of the alignment member may facilitate rotational alignment of the alignment member and the manipulator assembly.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of positioning a patient introducer and a robotic arm of a surgical robotic system, the method comprising:\n aligning a patient introducer to a port, the patient introducer comprising:\n an introducer tube extending between (i) a distal end connectable to the port and (ii) a proximal end configured to receive a surgical tool from the robotic arm, the introducer tube configured to guide the surgical tool into the port, and \n an alignment member connected to the introducer tube and comprising a first shape and a first alignment marking; \n placing the robotic arm into an alignment position, a manipulator assembly being connected to a distal portion of the robotic arm, the manipulator assembly comprising a second shape and a second alignment marking, the second shape being complementary to the first shape; and rotationally aligning the manipulator assembly and the alignment member based on aligning the second alignment marking of the manipulator assembly with the first alignment marking of the alignment member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59322
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15729569', '15729558', '10116504', '10424536', '13967573']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7803767145854797
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4681432827278591
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7491533713997176
- Mean Citation Score: 214.215308
- Max Citation Score: 246.69135
- Similarity Product: 197.731694956702

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