PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970957
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["128", "854000"]

Abstract:
A disposable surgical drape is provided for use while performing surgical procedures on an eye of a patient, or other surgical procedures. There is an operative, surgical aperture formed through a base sheet for being located proximal to a first eye, or other surgical site, of the patient. An attachment zone is formed on the base sheet, proximal to the surgical aperture, and at least partially surrounds the surgical aperture. In one form, a guide extends across the surgical aperture on the upper surface of the base sheet. In another form, the base sheet has a non-surgical aperture spaced from the surgical aperture for being located proximal to a second eye of the patient. The disposable surgical drape can be provided in a folded form to facilitate placement on a patient and subsequent unfolding and spreading of the drape. In this embodiment, the drape includes a minimally-adhesive film that defines the surgical aperture.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of folding a disposable surgical drape, comprising the steps of:\n providing a rectangular base sheet of thin, flexible material, said base sheet having an upper surface, a lower surface for contacting a patient, and at least one edge; providing a surgical aperture formed through said base sheet, said surgical aperture being positionable proximally of a first eye of the patient, including positioning said surgical aperture intermediate of a first pair of marginal portions of said drape, and intermediate of a second pair of marginal portions of said drape; providing an attachment zone on said base sheet lower surface, said attachment zone being proximal said surgical aperture, said attachment zone at least partially surrounding said surgical aperture, said attachment zone being configured for attaching said base sheet lower surface to the patient; and forming at least one fold in each of said marginal portions of said drape, to form a folded drape to facilitate placement of said folded drape on, a patient with said surgical aperture positioned at said first eye of said patient, so that said first and second pairs of marginal portions can be unfolded to spread said drape to cover the patient.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28378
- Patent Class: 128.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10518160', '14533196', '13289184', '10190984', '11021557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6602976417385668
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4794121164640833
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6422090892111184
- Mean Citation Score: 216.69469
- Max Citation Score: 235.05487
- Similarity Product: 175.66532363852318

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

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