PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920196
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
An end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the end effector including an anvil that includes a first end, a second end, and a face, and a cartridge that is configured to house a plurality of staples and that includes a first end, a second end, and a face, and an engagement element that movably couples the first end of the anvil to the first end of the cartridge, and a knife, the knife having a first flange, a second flange, and a web including a cutting edge, and where the second end of the anvil is movably coupled to the second end of the cartridge, each of the anvil and the cartridge is insertable through a trocar, and the end effector is remotely operable from outside the patient.

Claim (Index 18):
An end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the end effector comprising:\n an anvil, the anvil comprising;\n a. a first end, \n b. a second end, \n c. an anvil face, \n d. a first track defined at least partially by the anvil, and \n e. a first slot defined at least partially by the anvil face; \n a cartridge that is configured to house a plurality of staples, the cartridge comprising;\n a. a first end, \n b. a second end, \n c. a cartridge face, the cartridge face being positioned substantially opposite the anvil face, \n d. a second track defined at least partially by the cartridge, and \n e. a second slot defined at least partially by the cartridge face; \n a knife, wherein the knife is operably configured to move longitudinally from a first position at the second end of the end effector to a second position at about the first end of the end effector, the knife comprising;\n a. a first flange, \n b. a second flange, and \n c. a web including a cutting edge connecting the first flange and the second flange such that the knife has a substantially I-shaped configuration; \n wherein the first slot of the anvil and the second slot of the cartridge are configured to slidably receive the web of the knife during movement of the knife; and a hinge, the hinge being positioned at the second end of the anvil and the second end of the cartridge, wherein the hinge pivotally couples the anvil and the cartridge wherein the second end of the anvil is movably coupled to the second end of the cartridge, each of the anvil and the cartridge is insertable through a trocar, and the end effector is remotely operable from outside the patient with at least a portion of one of the anvil and the cartridge being movable toward the other to clamp the end effector and to transect the anatomical structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96491
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15129385', '15129366', '15633399', '13971022', '14206713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9299476907649332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5271288371886852
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8896658054073083
- Mean Citation Score: 361.443818
- Max Citation Score: 458.1969
- Similarity Product: 415.10913936313386

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

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