PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["600", "129000"]

Abstract:
A variety of tools and techniques are provided to support removal of ligamentum flavum in a spinal canal and other, similar tissue removal procedures.

Claim (Index 2):
The device of  claim 1  wherein at least one of the flaps are coupled to the distal end of the first tube through a living hinge that urges the at least one of the flaps into the undeployed state due to an elasticity of the first tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.13043
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14501865', '14501932', '13588969', '14550436', '14234014']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5221551124037885
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.487696940545788
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5187092952179885
- Mean Citation Score: 183.371742
- Max Citation Score: 188.71501
- Similarity Product: 116.46462643741609

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

Dataset: test