PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885105
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "114000"]

Abstract:
Various flexible windows and methods of use are provided herein that can be integrated with devices configured to image target tissue from a body cavity. In an exemplary embodiment, an imaging sleeve is provided with an elongate shaft having distal and proximal ends. The elongate shaft is configured to receive at least a portion of an imaging device therein, and an engagement member is disposed on the proximal end and configured to engage with the imaging device. A flexible window is disposed adjacent to the distal end and is configured to form to the imaging device to minimize distortion of light collected by the imaging device through the flexible window.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of imaging a tissue sample, comprising:\n positioning an imaging sleeve adjacent to uterine tissue in a uterus of a patient to be imaged by an imaging device disposed at least partially in an imaging lumen within the imaging sleeve, the imaging device visualizing the uterine tissue through a flexible window sealing only a distal end of the imaging lumen in the imaging sleeve such that the flexible window forms to a distal end of the imaging device to reduce distortion of images taken thereby; imaging a uterine tissue sample using the imaging device positioned in engagement with the flexible window; and passing a surgical tool through a working lumen extending through the imaging sleeve to manipulate the uterine tissue sample disposed distally beyond the imaging sleeve such that a distal end of the working lumen is open to tissue surrounding the distal end of the imaging sleeve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8125
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13924835', '14424277', '11277323', '11775477', '12482049']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5125372591698462
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4814101021152609
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5094245434643876
- Mean Citation Score: 220.824324
- Max Citation Score: 226.29803
- Similarity Product: 162.40527574435592

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