PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["600", "129000"]

Abstract:
A variety of tools and techniques are provided to support removal of ligamentum flavum in a spinal canal and other, similar tissue removal procedures.

Claim (Index 10):
The device of  claim 9  further comprising an imaging element at the distal end, wherein the one or more supplemental tools includes saline wash sourced through the second hollow core and directed at the imaging element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.13043
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14501865', '14501932', '13588969', '14550436', '14234014']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4957391212833046
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4725476819666025
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4934199773516344
- Mean Citation Score: 183.371742
- Max Citation Score: 188.71501
- Similarity Product: 133.53813759199386

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