PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875360
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["600", "190000"]

Abstract:
An example assembly for use with a vacuum system and an esophageal positioning device esophageal positioning device includes an introducer, in which the esophageal positioning device includes a handle, a first segment, a second segment and an articulation driving mechanism. The first segment being coupled to the handle. The second segment being pivotally connected to the first segment. The articulation driving mechanism being configured to pivot the second segment about the first segment upon articulation.

Claim (Index 1):
An assembly for use with a vacuum system and an esophageal positioning device, the esophageal positioning device comprising a handle, a first segment coupled to the handle, a second segment pivotally connected to the first segment, and an articulation driving mechanism that pivots the second segment about the first segment upon articulation, the assembly comprising:\n an introducer comprising:\n a soft outer tube sized to pass through a mouth or nasal passage into an esophagus, the soft outer tube comprising a distal end, a proximal end, a lumen, and a body, wherein the body defines a plurality of radial vacuum holes spaced circumferentially around the soft outer tube and one or more internal vacuum passages that extend a distance from the proximal end towards the distal end within the body of the outer tube, wherein the one or more internal vacuum passages are in fluid communication with the plurality of vacuum holes to apply a vacuum to an esophageal wall via the vacuum system; and \n a tube tip located at the distal end of the outer tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15789
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11471513', '15603176', '14164234', '14887313', '13575974']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4274281949159499
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4803726322344511
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4327226386478
- Mean Citation Score: 206.642584
- Max Citation Score: 213.85194
- Similarity Product: 164.4134037114144

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

Dataset: test