PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16156175
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["600", "141000"]

Abstract:
An articulating mechanism for use in a medical device, such as an endoscope or a catheter, includes a series of stacked links disposed adjacent to one another and movable with respect to each other. Each link includes a front face tapered to a pair of pivot points and a rear face defining a wedge shaped recess for receiving the pivot points of the adjacent link. Pull-wires provide tension and hold the staked links together while also allowing for controlled bending of the distal portion by movement of one or more of the pull-wires.

Claim (Index 13):
The articulation mechanism of  claim 11 , wherein the outer sleeve comprises a drug coating.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.50769
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14834717', '12121345', '13901936', '15585303', '13442524']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5939316890983819
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5439510828124827
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.588933628469792
- Mean Citation Score: 381.015976
- Max Citation Score: 431.01123
- Similarity Product: 341.13810627794805

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