PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944566
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["600", "567000"]

Abstract:
Certain aspects relate to a superelastic medical instrument that of bending elastically through the tortuous pathways of an endoscope, returning to a straight shape upon deployment from the endoscope, and deploying straight along the axis of the end of the bronchoscope (within a tolerated margin) to distances of 2 cm or more.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of obtaining a tissue biopsy, the method comprising:\n positioning a distal end of a working channel of an endoscope adjacent to a desired biopsy site; advancing a tubular jacket through the working channel, the jacket including a biopsy needle assembly positioned within the jacket, the biopsy needle assembly comprising:\n a needle formed from a superelastic alloy, the needle including:\n a body portion extending from a distal end of the needle to a proximal end of the needle, and \n an inner surface of the needle forming a lumen extending through at least a portion of the body portion to an opening in the distal end, wherein the lumen and the opening are configured to acquire a tissue biopsy; and \n \n an elongate member attached at the proximal end of the needle; \n actuating a first linear motion of a proximal end the elongate member to drive extension of at least a portion of the needle out of the jacket into the biopsy site; acquiring a tissue sample from the biopsy site through the opening of the needle; and actuating a second linear motion of the proximal end the elongate member to drive retraction of the needle out of the biopsy site.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.35714
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13773997', '15441025', '14729860', '15284466', '11304218']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4988498218572995
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4705542224155368
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4960202619131232
- Mean Citation Score: 193.638158
- Max Citation Score: 202.29982
- Similarity Product: 152.40602192328217

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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