PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15921051
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["600", "148000"]

Abstract:
A control unit that includes a braking system for fixing the position of an endoscope tip is provided. The control system includes an up-down control knob and a right-left control knob. The brakes are engaged by rotating the control knob itself counter-clockwise from a free wheeling position. After the brakes have been engaged, a sufficient amount of force applied to the control knobs will move the endoscope tip slightly in the corresponding direction, allowing for fine tuning of tip position after braking.

Claim (Index 13):
The control unit of  claim 10 , wherein the brake base, lid, and bushing are supported by a housing surrounding the brake disc.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62963
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14835996', '10329071', '12031030', '12718143', '10618832']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5531426119609343
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5623446390021738
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5540628146650582
- Mean Citation Score: 239.168292
- Max Citation Score: 498.7145
- Similarity Product: 375.0324885645808

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