PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16270721
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["174", "260000"]

Abstract:
A method of encapsulating and hermetically sealing a printed circuit board of a flex cable includes: positioning a printed circuit board portion of a flex cable into a channel defined in a first mold half of a mold, the printed circuit board portion including a substrate and electronic components mounted on the substrate; mounting a second mold half onto the first mold half to enclose the channel of the first mold half and form a cavity within the mold; and filling the cavity of the mold with an encapsulation material through an inlet opening defined through the mold.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of encapsulating and hermetically sealing electronic components of a flex cable assembly and integrating the flex cable assembly into a surgical device, comprising:\n positioning a printed circuit board portion of a flex cable assembly into a channel defined in a first housing half of an encapsulation housing, the printed circuit board portion including a substrate of a first flex cable of the flex cable assembly and electronic components mounted on the substrate; mounting a second housing half onto the first housing half to enclose the channel of the first housing half and form a cavity within the encapsulation housing; and filling the cavity of the encapsulation housing with an encapsulation material through an inlet opening defined through the encapsulation housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06
- Patent Class: 174.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15947314', '15814005', '14648482', '14164769', '10982216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8281218800308833
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4833293756746904
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.793642629595264
- Mean Citation Score: 193.37231
- Max Citation Score: 244.81093
- Similarity Product: 208.15907465200905

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

Dataset: test