PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017403
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["323", "299000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a method for controlling a surgical instrument. The method includes connecting a power assembly to a control circuit, wherein the power assembly is configured to provide a source voltage, energizing, by the power assembly, a voltage boost convertor circuit configured to provide a set voltage greater than the source voltage, and energizing, by the voltage boost convertor, one or more voltage convertors configured to provide one or more operating voltages to one or more circuit components.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for controlling a surgical instrument, the method comprising:\n connecting a power assembly to a control circuit, wherein the power assembly is configured to provide a source voltage; energizing, by the power assembly, a voltage boost convertor circuit configured to provide a set voltage greater than the source voltage; and energizing, by the voltage boost convertor, a safety processor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17073
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14226081', '14226076', '15727316', '15727332', '14856682']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8914778738776874
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4879860883923593
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8511286953291546
- Mean Citation Score: 215.4806
- Max Citation Score: 281.5073
- Similarity Product: 231.3970281782269

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

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