PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16103644
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
Embodiments include an end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient, the end effector including a first jaw having a first end, a second end, a longitudinal axis, and an anvil having an anvil face; a second jaw having a first end, a second end, a longitudinal axis, and a cartridge operably configured to house a plurality of staples, the cartridge having a cartridge face; a first coupling that couples the first end of the first jaw to the first end of the second jaw; and a second coupling that movably couples the second end of the first jaw to the second end of the second jaw, where the second coupling includes a rigid link connected to the first jaw and the second jaw.

Claim (Index 3):
The end effector of  claim 1 , wherein the first coupling comprises a pin having a pin axis, the pin axis being transverse to the longitudinal axis of the first jaw and the longitudinal axis of the second jaw, wherein the pin pivotally couples the first end of the first jaw to the first end of the second jaw.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13967449', '13971022', '13971006', '13967716', '14206713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9373918355136608
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4866654727994188
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8923191992422366
- Mean Citation Score: 394.70871
- Max Citation Score: 399.1881
- Similarity Product: 284.2438697236777

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

Dataset: test