PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15995902
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["227", "176100"]

Abstract:
A surgical stapler is described herein which includes a shaft portion and a tool assembly supported on a distal end of the shaft portion. The too assembly includes an anvil and a cartridge body which rotatably supports a plurality of staples within notches. At least one firing cam is provided to sequentially to engage and rotate each of the staples to fire the staples from the cartridge body. In embodiments, the cartridge body includes two spaced legs which support two linear rows of staples. Each of the spaced legs of the cartridge body is supported within one of a first and a second cartridge channel. The cartridge channels are fixed to opposite sides of a pivot member which is pivotally supported at a distal end of the shaft portion between the shaft portion and the tool assembly such that translation of the first and second cartridge channels in opposite directions effects articulation of the tool assembly in relation to the shaft portion.

Claim (Index 20):
The staple of  claim 17 , wherein each of the first and second legs and define a longitudinal axis and the backspan defines a longitudinal axis, wherein the longitudinal axis of the backspan is perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the first and second legs.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19481
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14180578', '15814462', '14994228', '14803249', '10871342']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9116592557682782
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5348033546166793
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8739736656531184
- Mean Citation Score: 512.3090339999999
- Max Citation Score: 591.2148
- Similarity Product: 399.09600353915687

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