PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16274222
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["600", "122000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope comprising an examination field cleaning system and a method of using the endoscope to clean an examination field in an internal body cavity are disclosed herein. The endoscope comprises an inner channel comprising a primary working channel, lens system, and light delivery system and an outer secondary working channel comprising an examination field cleaning system. The inner channel is approximately cylindrical and is encompassed by a rigid or flexible tube. The outer secondary working channel is encompassed by an outer cylinder that is approximately concentric with and fully encompasses the inner channel and tube, wherein the examination field cleaning system may comprise one or more fluid delivery channels. The endoscope may further comprise an anchoring bridge, wherein the anchoring bridge secures the outer cylinder to the inner channel.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein the outer secondary channel of the endoscope is connected to a cleaning fluid storage vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24194
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13871870', '15172385', '14004313', '11735372', '15718910']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4931246281523674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4642184840809019
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4902340137452209
- Mean Citation Score: 164.03515199999995
- Max Citation Score: 169.92763
- Similarity Product: 127.94826709486662

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

Dataset: test