PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750472
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["422", "119000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for sterilizing items and storing the sterilized items prior to use includes a container configured to receive items to be sterilized, a trap door coupled with the container, and a mechanism operatively coupled with the trap door and the container. The trap door is reconfigurable between an open configuration providing a fluid passage into the apparatus and a closed configuration in which the items are hermetically sealed within the apparatus. The mechanism is configured for selective reconfiguration of the trap door from the closed configuration to the open configuration and to automatically reconfigure the trap door from the open configuration to the closed configuration after completion of a sterilization cycle for items disposed within the apparatus.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for sterilizing surgical implements within a sterilization chamber and storing the sterilized surgical implements prior to use, the apparatus comprising:\n a container configured to receive one or more surgical implements; a trap door coupled with the container so as to be reconfigurable between a closed configuration in which the trap door and the container at least partially define an internal volume that is hermetically sealed and an open configuration in which the trap door is displaced from the container to form a fluid passage between the internal volume and an external volume within the sterilization chamber and external to the container; and a mechanism operatively coupled with the trap door and the container, the mechanism being configured for selective reconfiguration of the trap door from the closed configuration to the open configuration and to automatically reconfigure the trap door from the open configuration to the closed configuration in response to one or more environmental conditions present in at least one of the internal volume or the external volume, the mechanism comprising an electromagnetic actuator configured to at least one of push the trap door toward the closed configuration or push the trap door toward the open configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23636
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15369713', '15831144', '09990130', '14644094', '14704056']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.750556486165701
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4599441041670055
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7214952479658314
- Mean Citation Score: 165.995394
- Max Citation Score: 171.57602
- Similarity Product: 136.62059420963527

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