PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "245000"]

Abstract:
A method of controlling an end effector of a robotically-controlled surgical instrument may include receiving a first input signal indicative of a high grip level input at a master grip input mechanism that controls a slave gripping force of the end effector; receiving a second input signal indicative of a user's readiness to operate the surgical instrument to perform a first surgical procedure; and outputting a locking signal in response to receiving the first input signal and the second input signal together to lock one or more degrees of freedom of the surgical instrument during the first surgical procedure.

Claim (Index 1):
A surgical device, comprising:\n a surgical instrument comprising an end effector comprising jaws configured to apply a gripping force, a cutting blade, and a stapler mechanism; a grip input mechanism operably coupled to the surgical instrument to actuate the gripping force applied by the jaws; a procedure input mechanism operably coupled to the surgical instrument to arm the cutting blade and the stapler mechanism prior to performance of a surgical procedure; and a controller operably coupled to the grip input mechanism and the procedure input mechanism, wherein, in an operational state, the controller:\n controls the jaws to apply a first gripping force in response to receiving a grip input command from the grip input mechanism; \n arms one or more of the cutting blade and the stapler mechanism in response to receiving a procedure input command from the procedure input mechanism; and \n controls one or more of the cutting blade and the stapler mechanism to perform the surgical procedure in response to receiving another procedure input command during application of the first gripping force by the jaws.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9434
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15805371', '13655999', '15090059', '13483455', '15150002']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4488816795365629
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5764589047514501
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4616394020580516
- Mean Citation Score: 405.971304
- Max Citation Score: 487.16412
- Similarity Product: 423.3392116440297

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

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