PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16043575
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["606", "051000"]

Abstract:
A method of surgery includes grasping tissue between tissue-treating plates of first and second jaw members. One or both of the jaw members includes a bifurcated body having first and second jaw components. Each jaw component includes a tissue-treating plate portion disposed thereon. The tissue-treating plate portions cooperate to define the tissue-treating plate of the jaw member. The method further includes energizing the tissue-treating plates of the first and second jaw members for conducting energy through grasped tissue to treat grasped tissue and separating grasped and treated tissue by rotating at least one of the first and second jaw components of the at least one jaw member relative to the other from an aligned orientation, wherein the tissue-treating plate portions are substantially co-planar relative to one another, to an angled orientation, wherein the tissue-treating plate portions are angled relative to one another.

Claim (Index 16):
The surgical instrument according to  claim 15 , wherein, during the relative movement of the first and second jaw members from the first approximated position to the second approximated position, the at least one protrusion of the first jaw member is configured to urge the first and second jaw components of the second jaw member horizontally apart from one another and relative to the first jaw member, thereby effecting horizontal movement of the second jaw member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30769
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14738201', '14793827', '14793859', '14543291', '13400290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7892318443355044
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5506906862143882
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7653777285233928
- Mean Citation Score: 388.929976
- Max Citation Score: 479.93457
- Similarity Product: 378.1846019617224

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

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