PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16368495
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "144000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, an apparatus for suturing tissue is provided that includes a body having a proximate end and a distal end. A suturing head is coupled to the distal end of the body, including a first set of curved needles, a second set of curved needles, and a plurality of sutures. A first end of a suture is coupled to one of the curved needles of the first set. A second end of the suture is coupled to one of the curved needles of the second set. The curved needles of the first set are oppositely oriented to the curved needles of the second set. The suturing head can be positioned between two substantially parallel sections of tissue. An actuator is coupled to the body to deploy the first and second sets of curved needles.

Claim (Index 6):
The apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein each of the curved needles includes:\n a first, relatively proximal region having a first diameter; and a second, relatively distal region having a second diameter, the distal region including a distal tip of the curved needle, wherein the second diameter is smaller than the first diameter; and wherein the first and second anchors are coupled to the curved needles in the distal region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.73214
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12134685', '15792749', '15895950', '09882821', '10352655']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8092079359596316
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5419337743215288
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7824805197958213
- Mean Citation Score: 290.19554000000005
- Max Citation Score: 302.24686
- Similarity Product: 202.8568260276389

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