PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920196
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
An end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the end effector including an anvil that includes a first end, a second end, and a face, and a cartridge that is configured to house a plurality of staples and that includes a first end, a second end, and a face, and an engagement element that movably couples the first end of the anvil to the first end of the cartridge, and a knife, the knife having a first flange, a second flange, and a web including a cutting edge, and where the second end of the anvil is movably coupled to the second end of the cartridge, each of the anvil and the cartridge is insertable through a trocar, and the end effector is remotely operable from outside the patient.

Claim (Index 9):
An end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the end effector comprising:\n an anvil that includes a first end, a second end, and a face that is positionable on the first side of the anatomical structure; a cartridge that is configured to house a plurality of staples and that includes a first end, a second end, and a face that is positionable on the second side of the anatomical structure; a knife, having a first flange, a second flange, and a web including a cutting edge connecting the first flange and the second flange, a first slot, the first slot being defined at least partially by the face of the anvil, wherein the first slot is configured to slidably receive the web of the knife during movement of the knife; and a second slot, the second slot being defined at least partially by the face of the cartridge, wherein the second slot is configured to slidably receive the web of the knife during movement of the knife; and wherein the second end of the anvil is movably coupled to the second end of the cartridge, each of the anvil and the cartridge is insertable through a trocar, and the end effector is remotely operable from outside the patient with at least a portion of one of the anvil and the cartridge being movable toward the other to clamp the end effector and to transect the anatomical structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96491
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15129385', '15129366', '15633399', '13971022', '14206713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9297556691944114
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5286858862813502
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8896486909031054
- Mean Citation Score: 361.443818
- Max Citation Score: 458.1969
- Similarity Product: 425.78536930224885

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