PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15898712
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "585000"]

Abstract:
A steering tool includes an internal tube disposed inside an external tube. The internal and external tubes are arranged for longitudinal axial movement relative to one another. A distal portion of the internal tube is fixedly joined to a distal portion of the external tube. Either or both of the tubes are formed with patterns of cuts made along adjacent longitudinal stations along a length of the cut tube. The cutting pattern at a first longitudinal station is shifted with respect to a cutting pattern at a second longitudinal station and a cutting pattern at the second longitudinal station is shifted with respect to a cutting pattern at a third longitudinal station but at a different shift defined between the first and second longitudinal stations, so that a shift from one longitudinal station of cuts to the next adjacent longitudinal station of cuts is not repeated.

Claim (Index 1):
A steering tool comprising:\n an internal tube disposed inside an external tube, said internal and external tubes being arranged for longitudinal axial movement relative to one another, wherein a distal portion of said internal tube is fixedly joined to a distal portion of said external tube at a joining zone, and said internal tube or said external tube is formed with patterns of cuts made along adjacent longitudinal stations along a length thereof, and wherein a cutting pattern at a first longitudinal station is shifted with respect to a cutting pattern at a second longitudinal station and a cutting pattern at the second longitudinal station is shifted with respect to a cutting pattern at a third longitudinal station but at a different shift defined between said first and second longitudinal stations, so that a shift from one longitudinal station of cuts to the next adjacent longitudinal station of cuts is not repeated, and wherein at each of said longitudinal stations said cuts are separated from each other by a separation and centers of the separations of said first, second and third longitudinal stations, when said internal tube or said external tube is in an unfolded position as a flat type sheet, do not lie on a common straight axis, wherein said common straight axis touches and is centered on each of the separations.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30303
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13470319', '13557471', '11496282', '14817696', '15441643']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4577092136801558
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.458982713607087
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.457836563672849
- Mean Citation Score: 172.024768
- Max Citation Score: 207.06894
- Similarity Product: 180.08695915363307

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

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