PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917212
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["600", "157000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope sheath comprising: a proximal end; a distal end having a distal end region; a surface extending between and connecting the proximal end and the distal end; and a plurality of positioning devices located along the surface; wherein the sheath is configured to: (1) receive all or a portion of an endoscope having a cylindrical end and (2) provide a conduit for communicating fluid between the proximal end of the sheath and the distal end of the sheath when the endoscope is inserted inside the sheath; and wherein the distal end region of the sheath includes the plurality of positioning devices that secure the cylindrical end of the endoscope against a portion of an inner wall of the surface extending between the proximal end and the distal end so that a fluid barrier is created between the cylindrical end of the endoscope and the inner wall.

Claim (Index 7):
An endoscope sheath comprising:\n a sheath having:\n a proximal end, \n a distal end, and \n a tube extending between the proximal end and the distal end; \n wherein the sheath is configured to receive all or a portion of an endoscope and provide inside the tube a conduit for communicating fluid between the proximal end of the sheath and the distal end of the sheath when the endoscope is inserted inside the sheath, and wherein the tube has a non-cylindrical shape that has a cross-section with a circular portion having a diameter substantially matching a diameter of the endoscope and one or more tangent portions that have one or more segments that are tangent to the circular portion at one or more points, wherein at least a part of a side of the endoscope contacts the circular portion when the endoscope is inserted into the tube, so that the conduit is formed between the side of the endoscope and inside of the tube opposite the circular portion in which the endoscope contacts.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83929
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14496473', '14493700', '10899209', '14551208', '14551440']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4968154640310767
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5198543649882323
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4991193541267923
- Mean Citation Score: 277.99615200000005
- Max Citation Score: 362.3355
- Similarity Product: 319.8929682970047

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