PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966699
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "210000"]

Abstract:
An access system is provided for establishing an access path to a surgical site within a patient. The access system comprises an access portal defining a working channel with a central axis, and an adaptor with a mating section mountable to the access portal. The adaptor is selectively rotatable about the central axis. The access portal includes a plurality of openings and the adaptor includes a plurality of projections, each of the projections and openings being arranged so that, in a first orientation, the openings and projections align to allow mounting of the adaptor to the access portal and, in a second orientation, the openings and projections do not align to prevent disassociation between the adaptor and the access portal. The adaptor also includes a holder for a viewing device, the viewing device being movable with the adaptor about the access portal and vertically translatable relative to the access portal.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein the step of mating the adaptor to the access portal including the step of placing the at least one projection of the adaptor in the at least one opening of a first flange of the access portal, wherein the access portal include the first and a second flange spaced apart from one another to define a channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49231
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15704489', '14640608', '13600889', '12069721', '12460795']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5319203771070958
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5835526551352795
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5370836049099142
- Mean Citation Score: 316.697114
- Max Citation Score: 492.8459
- Similarity Product: 481.2733798082472

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

Dataset: test