PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126731
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["606", "219000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments include a method of stapling an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the method comprising the steps of providing an end effector, the end effector comprising a first jaw having an anvil, a second jaw having a cartridge housing a plurality of staples, providing a buttress, the buttress comprising a first buttress member and a second buttress member, attaching the first buttress member to the anvil, attaching the second buttress member to the cartridge, deploying the plurality of staples, and cutting the first buttress member and the second buttress member.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising forming a sleeve in accordance with a sleeve gastrectomy procedure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16126647', '16126604', '15147942', '14926072', '14926029']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8536281382716926
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5340127582780552
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8216666002723289
- Mean Citation Score: 449.794954
- Max Citation Score: 540.3427
- Similarity Product: 285.4774058492363

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

Dataset: test