PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15892301
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["623", "008000"]

Abstract:
A tapered sleeve is provided that includes a lubricating coating on an inner surface. An implant (e.g., a pre-filled silicon breast implant) is introduced into a large end of the sleeve and extruded into a surgical pocket of minimal access incision size through a small-sized end of the apparatus.

Claim (Index 13):
An apparatus for use in a surgical procedure, the apparatus comprising:\n a flexible sleeve comprising: a first end region and a second end region, the flexible sleeve being tapered such that a width of the second end region is relatively smaller than a width of the first end region; an interior surface that forms an interior cavity, the interior cavity being sized to receive a filled breast implant; and a dry lubricant on the interior surface, the dry lubricant being activatable by moisture, wherein the flexible sleeve comprises indicia for cutting the flexible sleeve, the indicia indicating dimensions for accommodating different implant sizes, and wherein the flexible sleeve is manipulatable such that, when the filled breast implant is positioned within the interior cavity, a manually applicable directional pressure causes the filled breast implant to extrude from the second end region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.31707
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13802332', '15195424', '13372196', '12228072', '13365065']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7443935958663684
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4355141386858646
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7135056501483181
- Mean Citation Score: 217.244244
- Max Citation Score: 229.1377
- Similarity Product: 199.32693715100288

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