PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16288198
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["134", "018000"]

Abstract:
A method for reprocessing a surgical instrument in a reprocessing apparatus, where the surgical instrument has at least one channel to be cleaned. The method including: connecting the surgical instrument to a compressed air hose for supplying compressed air to the at least one channel; supplying drying air to the compressed air hose to leak test the surgical instrument using the drying air, the drying air having less moisture content than the compressed air; and subsequent to the supplying of the drying air, reprocessing the surgical instrument using at least one cleaning liquid.

Claim (Index 4):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the supplying of the drying air comprises supplying the drying air at a pressure greater than 500 mbar.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29545
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15274807', '15969619', '15427745', '14687160', '10292747']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.831861438392766
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5043378992628577
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7991090844797752
- Mean Citation Score: 157.306356
- Max Citation Score: 178.12616
- Similarity Product: 99.25925663359642

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