PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "114000"]

Abstract:
A sleeve assembly is described for coupling a colonoscope insertion tube to an add-on tube. In some embodiments, the sleeve assembly defines an elongated lumen and comprises an inner sleeve sized to receive an insertion tube of a colonoscope, an outer sleeve encircling the inner sleeve, and one or more add-on tubes positioned between the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve. In some embodiments, at least the inner sleeve is collapsible to fit tightly over a colonoscope insertion tube received within the inner sleeve. In some embodiments, the inner sleeve is coupled to the outer sleeve at one or more locations along the length of the inner sleeve so that collapsing of the inner sleeve brings the outer sleeve radially closer to the inner sleeve, approximating the one or more add-on tubes to a colonoscope insertion tube received within the inner sleeve.

Claim (Index 21):
A sleeve assembly for coupling between an endoscope insertion tube and one or more add-on tubes, the sleeve assembly comprising:\n at least one lumenal wall defining a longitudinally extending lumen and having an expanded state sized to surroundingly receive at least 70% of the length of the endoscope insertion tube arranged longitudinally within the lumenal wall; at least one add-on tube passing along the longitudinal extent of the sleeve assembly; wherein said sleeve assembly in said expanded state while said endoscope insertion tube is within the lumenal wall is collapsible to a collapsed state so that said add-on tubes are approximated radially closer to said endoscope insertion tube, said sleeve assembly maintaining said at least one add-on tube in said approximated position with respect to said endoscope insertion tube; and wherein the at least one add-on tube winds spirally along the longitudinal extent of the sleeve assembly and the endoscope insertion tube in said collapsed state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71429
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15108601', '14619845', '15172385', '13725871', '14201371']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4681170820613628
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5475952137860534
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4760648952338319
- Mean Citation Score: 228.142374
- Max Citation Score: 421.26163
- Similarity Product: 388.9487655414104

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

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