PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903139
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["074", "502600"]

Abstract:
An apparatus includes a housing, a cable guide, a first cable, and a second cable. The housing is coupled to a shaft of a medical instrument. The cable guide is coupled to the housing, and defines a shaft opening into a passageway defined by the shaft. A first guide groove and a second guide groove are defined by the cable guide, with each of the first guide groove and the second guide groove being splayed outward from the shaft opening. The first cable is routed within the first guide groove and through the shaft opening, and is configured to slide within the first guide groove. The second cable is routed within the second guide groove and through the shaft opening, and is configured to slide within the second guide groove.

Claim (Index 7):
The apparatus of  claim 3 , wherein:\n the bend portion is a first bend portion transitioning to the inner surface, the first bend portion characterized by a first bend radius about a first bend axis; and the second guide groove is defined by a second guide surface, the second guide surface including a second bend portion transitioning to the inner surface, the second bend portion characterized by a second bend radius about a second bend axis, the second bend radius different than the first bend radius.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.4878
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12173934', '12173928', '14144510', '12945748', '12240575']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8175000947557264
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4628482928289693
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7820349145630506
- Mean Citation Score: 187.777388
- Max Citation Score: 197.95053
- Similarity Product: 125.3308169693863

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

Dataset: test