PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126702
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
Embodiments include a surgical instrument having an end effector, the end effector including a first jaw having a first end, a second end, and an anvil, the anvil having an anvil face, a second jaw having a first end, a second end, and a cartridge to house a plurality of staples, the cartridge having a cartridge face, a first coupling that couples the first end of the first jaw to the first end of the second jaw, and a second coupling that movably couples the second end of the first jaw to the second end of the second jaw, where the second coupling includes a rigid link, an elongate tube, where a distal end is coupled with the end effector, a handle, where a distal end of the handle is coupled with a proximal end of the elongate tube, and a drive assembly comprising a motor.

Claim (Index 29):
The end effector of  claim 28 , wherein the cord is threaded through the plurality of apertures in the buttress to retain the buttress adjacent the anvil face or the cartridge face.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 70.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.62222
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16126647', '16126604', '13967449', '13971022', '15147942']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.95096394909642
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4880225057204567
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.904669804758824
- Mean Citation Score: 460.16793600000005
- Max Citation Score: 569.8819
- Similarity Product: 351.36919348846084

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

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