PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15772857
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["600", "204000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a vacuum-actuated surgical grasper includes a suction head adapted to interface with patient tissue, a suction tube connected to and in fluid communication with the suction head, and a handle connected to the suction tube, the handle comprising an internal passage in fluid communication with the suction tube through which fluid from the suction tube can flow and a pivotable actuation lever that controls this flow through the passage.

Claim (Index 20):
A method for controlling a suction force applied by a suction head of a vacuum-actuated surgical grasper, the method comprising:\n pivoting an actuation lever of the surgical grasper about a pivot point from an initial, unactuated position to an actuated position, wherein the suction head provides no suction force in the initial, unactuated position but the suction force provided by the suction head gradually increases as the lever is pivoted.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87805
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10230682', '11471513', '13940639', '14019404', '15195898']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4767589068034129
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4968190175448954
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4787649178775612
- Mean Citation Score: 192.875872
- Max Citation Score: 208.00977
- Similarity Product: 117.39170417923808

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

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