PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16103644
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
Embodiments include an end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient, the end effector including a first jaw having a first end, a second end, a longitudinal axis, and an anvil having an anvil face; a second jaw having a first end, a second end, a longitudinal axis, and a cartridge operably configured to house a plurality of staples, the cartridge having a cartridge face; a first coupling that couples the first end of the first jaw to the first end of the second jaw; and a second coupling that movably couples the second end of the first jaw to the second end of the second jaw, where the second coupling includes a rigid link connected to the first jaw and the second jaw.

Claim (Index 11):
An end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the end effector comprising:\n (a) an anvil comprising a first end, a second end, an anvil face, a length, and a width, wherein the length of the anvil is at least ten times the width of the anvil; (b) a cartridge comprising a first end, a second end, a cartridge face, a length, and a width, wherein the length of the cartridge is at least ten times the width of the anvil, the cartridge being operably configured to house a plurality of staples, wherein the first end of the anvil is coupled with the first end of the cartridge and the second end of the anvil is movably coupled to the second end of the cartridge; and (c) a rigid link having a distal portion and a proximal portion, wherein the rigid link movably couples the second end of the anvil to the second end of the cartridge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13967449', '13971022', '13971006', '13967716', '14206713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9298990321274844
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4850611931261966
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8854152482273556
- Mean Citation Score: 394.70871
- Max Citation Score: 399.1881
- Similarity Product: 297.2854485302925

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

Dataset: test