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 30):
An end effector comprising:\n (a) a first jaw having a first end, a second end, an anvil having an anvil face, and a first channel; (b) a second jaw having a first end, a second end, a cartridge having a cartridge face, and a second channel; (c) a first coupling that couples the first end of the first jaw to the first end of the second jaw; (d) a second coupling that couples the second end of the first jaw to the second end of the second jaw; (e) an I-shaped blade, the I-shaped blade comprising;\n (i) a blade portion having a cutting edge; \n (ii) at least one upper lateral arm, wherein the at least one upper lateral arm is slidably positioned in the first channel; and \n (iii) at least one lower lateral arm, wherein the at least one lower lateral arm is slidably positioned in the second channel; and \n (f) a buttress, the buttress being a planar section of material coupled with 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: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16126647', '16126604', '13967449', '13971022', '15147942']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9426741056096454
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5153666625177096
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8999433613004518
- Mean Citation Score: 460.16793600000005
- Max Citation Score: 569.8819
- Similarity Product: 461.2276056160092

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

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