PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944566
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["600", "567000"]

Abstract:
Certain aspects relate to a superelastic medical instrument that of bending elastically through the tortuous pathways of an endoscope, returning to a straight shape upon deployment from the endoscope, and deploying straight along the axis of the end of the bronchoscope (within a tolerated margin) to distances of 2 cm or more.

Claim (Index 22):
The method of  claim 20 , wherein the jacket has a handle coupled to a proximal end of the jacket configured to actuate the first and second linear motions of the proximal end of the elongate member along a longitudinal axis of the handle, the method further comprising actuating the handle to control the extension and the retraction of the needle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.35714
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13773997', '15441025', '14729860', '15284466', '11304218']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4954957912275211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4839431593934081
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4943405280441099
- Mean Citation Score: 193.638158
- Max Citation Score: 202.29982
- Similarity Product: 131.8070841434741

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