PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16372093
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "065000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses provide improved navigation through tubular networks such as lung airways by providing improved estimation of location and orientation information of a medical instrument (e.g., an endoscope) within the tubular network. Various input data such as image data, EM data, and robot data are used by different algorithms to estimate the state of the medical instrument, and the state information is used to locate a specific site within a tubular network and/or to determine navigation information for what positions/orientations the medical instrument should travel through to arrive at the specific site. Probability distributions together with confidence values are generated corresponding to different algorithms are used to determine the medical instrument's estimated state.

Claim (Index 34):
A method for robotically-assisted bronchoscopy, the method comprising:\n displaying a model of a bronchial network; accessing a selected target location in the bronchial network; accessing a determined path from an entry point of the bronchial network to the target location; inserting a robotically-controllable bronchoscope into a bronchial network of a patient with a robotic arm comprising a plurality of segments, the robotic arm extending from a base; receiving input data relating to a position of the bronchoscope from a plurality of data sources; determining the position of the bronchoscope within the bronchial network based on the input data from one or more of the plurality of data sources; displaying the determined position of the bronchoscope relative to the displayed model of the bronchial network; displaying navigational guidance comprising: the determined path to the target location, a distance to the target location, an orientation of the bronchoscope, and depth data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7971
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15268238', '15669258', '15783903', '16023877', '15392674']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.619449686442522
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5444694658228867
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6119516643805585
- Mean Citation Score: 297.77343600000006
- Max Citation Score: 394.29477
- Similarity Product: 284.6251258027912

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