PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16288434
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["156", "577000"]

Abstract:
A dispensing device configured to operate with an adhesive backed mesh and backing film for tissue bonding is disclosed. The dispensing device provides for low-friction, low force pay-out of a desired length of an adhesive backed mesh to a wound site. The device prevents or eliminates distortion of the mesh prior to application to the wound site, and includes means for reducing or eliminating binding during use. The dispensing device is configured to operate in a “forward” mode (substrate to which mesh is applied passes beneath applicator after mesh is applied) to provide essentially an unobstructed view of the wound site during use.

Claim (Index 28):
A method for tissue bonding or closing wounds comprising:\n utilizing a dispensing device in a forward motion, the dispensing device comprising: a housing having two segments and an opening and wherein the housing further comprises a pair of projections which are extensions of the segments at the distal end of the housing at the opening; a supply spool rotatably mounted in the housing, the supply spool comprising a spool of flexible material and backing film, the flexible material comprising a pressure sensitive adhesive applied over at least a portion of a side of the flexible material, and a backing film detachably adhered to the pressure sensitive adhesive; a guide element mounted at the opening and having two end surfaces and a circumferential surface in close proximity to the tissue, the majority of the circumferential surface of the guide element is not visually obstructed by the housing; a take-up spool rotatably mounted in the housing, the take-up spool rotatably coupled with the supply spool for receiving the backing film from the guide element; contacting a tissue surface in need of bonding, wherein at least a portion of the pressure sensitive adhesive side of the flexible material is pressed between the tissue surface and the guide element; adhering the at least a portion of the pressure sensitive adhesive side of the flexible material to the tissue surface; operating the dispensing device in a forward direction along the tissue surface; dispensing the flexible material from the opening of the device while visually observing and directing the contact of the flexible material from the guide element to the tissue; and bonding the tissue surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73846
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13079848', '15711293', '13717051', '10944535', '15179916']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8930385939669602
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5358633817399744
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8573210727442615
- Mean Citation Score: 240.810384
- Max Citation Score: 366.485
- Similarity Product: 348.6854653573037

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

Dataset: test