PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "245000"]

Abstract:
A method of controlling an end effector of a robotically-controlled surgical instrument may include receiving a first input signal indicative of a high grip level input at a master grip input mechanism that controls a slave gripping force of the end effector; receiving a second input signal indicative of a user's readiness to operate the surgical instrument to perform a first surgical procedure; and outputting a locking signal in response to receiving the first input signal and the second input signal together to lock one or more degrees of freedom of the surgical instrument during the first surgical procedure.

Claim (Index 4):
A method for operating a surgical device, comprising:\n receiving a grip input command from a grip input mechanism, wherein the grip input mechanism actuates jaws of an end effector of a surgical instrument to apply gripping forces; controlling, in response to receiving the grip input command, the jaws to apply a gripping force; receiving a procedure input command from a procedure input mechanism, wherein the procedure input mechanism arms, prior to performance of a surgical procedure, one or more of a cutting blade and a stapler mechanism of the end effector of the surgical instrument; arming, in response to receiving the procedure input command, one or more of the cutting blade and the stapler mechanism; and controlling one or more of the cutting blade and the stapler mechanism to perform the surgical procedure in response to receiving another procedure input command during application of the gripping force by the jaws.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9434
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15805371', '13655999', '15090059', '13483455', '15150002']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4476694787708247
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5792119259252023
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4608237234862625
- Mean Citation Score: 405.971304
- Max Citation Score: 487.16412
- Similarity Product: 438.6896347047759

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test