PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16053207
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["606", "051000"]

Abstract:
An endoscopic bipolar forceps includes a housing and a shaft affixed to the housing. The shaft includes a longitudinal axis defined therethrough and a pair of jaw members attached to a distal end thereof. The forceps also includes a drive assembly for moving one of the jaw members relative to the other jaw member from a first position wherein the movable jaw members are disposed in spaced relation relative to each other to a second position wherein the jaw members are closer one another for manipulating tissue. A movable handle is included which is rotatable about a pivot to force a drive flange of the movable handle into mechanical cooperation with the drive assembly to move the jaw members from the open and closed positions. The pivot is located a fixed distance from the longitudinal axis and the drive flange is located generally along the longitudinal axis. The forceps is connected to a source of electrosurgical energy connected to each jaw member such that the jaw members are capable of conducting bipolar energy through tissue held therebetween to effect a tissue seal.

Claim (Index 24):
The bipolar forceps according to  claim 14 , wherein the finger actuator includes a pair of tabs extending therefrom, and wherein the locking flange is configured to abut at least one of the tabs of the finger actuator to impede actuation of the finger actuator and advancement of the selectively advancable knife.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16092
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14725289', '11588482', '14725271', '14725307', '10460926']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8998502180150564
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5602940804364007
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8658946042571909
- Mean Citation Score: 529.671706
- Max Citation Score: 538.05865
- Similarity Product: 412.3559514769733

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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