PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15888802
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["401", "011000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for inking a surgical instrument are provided herein. In some embodiments, and apparatus for inking a surgical instrument includes: an inking capsule, comprising a base and a vertical wall extending from the base to define a cavity, the inking capsule having a first opening opposite the base; an ink reservoir disposed within the cavity, the ink reservoir having ink disposed therein and comprising a second opening proximate a top portion of the ink reservoir; and a penetrable seal covering the second opening to seal the ink in the ink reservoir when the seal is in an unbroken state.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 16 , further comprising:\n aligning the portion of the surgical instrument with an indicating boundary visible over an insertion region of the penetrable seal prior to breaking the seal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07547
- Patent Class: 401.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15037373', '10742320', '14272397', '12099333', '14213602']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6657157255540418
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.454636752063407
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6446078282049783
- Mean Citation Score: 154.59269799999996
- Max Citation Score: 170.27625
- Similarity Product: 122.90023626431824

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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