PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044845
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["422", "536000"]

Abstract:
A tissue modification apparatus includes at least a first plurality of grippers aligned in a plane adapted to secure a first edge of a patch of tissue. The plurality of grippers are each secured to a first force actuator. The first plurality of grippers are each adapted to pivot relative to the first force actuator about an axis perpendicular to the plane. In some cases, a plurality of grippers are attached to a force actuator by a passive force transfer mechanism. In some cases, individual force actuators are attached by pivoted connections to individual grippers. Methods of treating tissue can secure tensioned tissue to a frame to retain the tension during a treatment (e.g., cross-linking the tissue with a chemical cross-linker).

Claim (Index 5):
The tissue modification apparatus of  claim 2 , further comprising a third plurality of grippers and a fourth plurality of grippers, the third plurality of grippers being aligned in the plane adjacent the first plurality of grippers and the fourth plurality of grippers being aligned in the plane opposite the third plurality of grippers, the third and fourth pluralities of grippers each being adapted to secure a third and fourth edge of a patch of tissue, wherein at least the third plurality of grippers are each secured to a third force actuator adapted to pull the third plurality of grippers in a direction opposite the fourth plurality of grippers such that a patch of tissue secured between the first, second, third, and fourth plurality of grippers can be stretched along both the first orientation and a second orientation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09524
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15250382', '14481477', '15272772', '15340242', '15272747']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7732706575735523
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5216986461693649
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7481134564331335
- Mean Citation Score: 219.574196
- Max Citation Score: 363.16614
- Similarity Product: 212.7819019010317

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