PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937415
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["604", "022000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure describes techniques and devices for improvement of surgical outcomes for tissue removal surgeries. A surgical instrument with adjustable and selective resection is described. The disclosed devices and methods allow selective tissue removal.

Claim (Index 1):
A surgical instrument for selectively removing a first tissue type comprising:\n a handle located at a proximal end of the surgical instrument; a first lumen extending along a longitudinal axis of the surgical instrument from the proximal end to a distal end of the surgical instrument, an inner bore of the first lumen extending from an open proximal terminal end of the first lumen to a closed distal terminal end of the first lumen, the first lumen including a nozzle formed in a side wall proximate to the closed distal terminal end, the nozzle having a width of approximately 0.003-0.015 inches, and configured to enable a jet of fluid to exit the nozzle; and a second lumen extending parallel to the first lumen along the longitudinal axis, an inner bore of the second lumen extending from an open proximal terminal end of the second lumen to a closed distal terminal end of the second lumen, the second lumen having an inner width greater than an inner width of the first lumen, the second lumen including an aperture approximately 0.055 to 0.011 inches in length and 0.040 to 0.055 inches in depth, disposed adjacent to the nozzle, and configured to receive the jet of fluid therein; wherein, in operation, the surgical instrument creates a jet of fluid and suction force to selectively cut and evacuate a first tissue type from a plurality of different tissue types within a surgical site.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.37037
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15631722', '10695632', '12207282', '10302766', '10100499']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7781072733518467
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5562840650822681
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7559249525248888
- Mean Citation Score: 287.75883
- Max Citation Score: 453.58746
- Similarity Product: 344.34742168387413

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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