PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872637
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["700", "260000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for a surgical system are provided that allow controlling a force applied by an electromechanical surgical tool coupled to an electromechanical surgical arm. A force limiter can be associated with at least one of the surgical arm and the tool and is used to limit the force applied by jaws of the tool to tissue when the tissue is engaged therebetween or when the tissue is otherwise manipulated. The force can be limited to a maximum force value, which can be preselected, and it can be adjustable based on user input or automatically. Also are provided techniques for a surgical system that allow controlling a stiffness of an electromechanical passive arm coupled to a fixture and having an active arm mounted thereon. The stiffness is adjusted, either manually or automatically, by adjusting a friction at a joint of the arm based on an angle at the arm's joint.

Claim (Index 13):
The surgical system of  claim 1 , wherein the stiffness is controlled such that the second end is configured to move toward and away from the fixture irrespective of a load applied to the passive arm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14865
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14959262', '14941094', '15422740', '14865826', '15422963']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4062889492805484
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.551561366563933
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4208161910088869
- Mean Citation Score: 268.37319
- Max Citation Score: 448.1285
- Similarity Product: 279.6583126776516

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

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