PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16066055
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["606", "140000"]

Abstract:
An elastic band ligation device for the treatment of haemorrhoids, comprising an inner tube ( 60 ), a deployer ( 40 ), and a grasper ( 26 ), the grasper including at least two gripping arms ( 23 ) and slidably mounted within the inner tube ( 60 ) to open and close the gripping arms. In a closed position, retaining a haemorrhoid, the gripping arms are within the body, and the deployer is positioned to release one of a plurality of ligation bands ( 50 ). The grasper handle ( 31 ) and the deployer trigger ( 62 ) are operable by a single hand. Preferably the device is disposable and the deployer includes a ratchet so that it may only be moved forward towards the bands. In an alternative device (FIGS.  12 - 13 ), the body ( 20, 120 ) is moved to close the gripping arms.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of ligating a haemorrhoid with an elastic band, the method including:\n manually gripping the handle of an elastic band ligation device by one hand to position a grasper including at least two gripping arms slidably located within a tube so that a haemorrhoid is located between the gripping arms; moving a manually operable member relative to the handle by the same hand to slidaby move the grasper relative to the tube thereby closing the gripping arms to retain and draw the haemorrhoid into the tube, manually operating a deployment mechanism by consecutive movements of the same hand without removing the hand from the handle for consecutively advancing a band deployment member incrementally relative to the tube for deploying successive bands from the end of the tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04938
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13239531', '11458177', '14190891', '13536548', '13779576']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.764152438057397
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4677981319430049
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7345170074459577
- Mean Citation Score: 147.93515399999995
- Max Citation Score: 192.83139
- Similarity Product: 135.00524533543825

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

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