PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16263300
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["227", "180100"]

Abstract:
Surgical staplers and methods of their use are provided. In one embodiment, a surgical stapler includes a tubular shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, a handle extending from the proximal end of the tubular shaft, a head assembly extending from the distal end of the tubular shaft, and an insertion guide configured to extend through the head assembly. The insertion guide includes an expandable member configured to move between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration.

Claim (Index 21):
A kit of parts, comprising:\n a surgical stapler which comprises:\n a tubular shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, \n a handle extending from the proximal end of the tubular shaft, and \n a head assembly extending from the distal end of the tubular shaft, wherein the head assembly comprises a central bore defined therein, a distal end face, and a staple guide positioned within the central bore; and \n an insertion guide which comprising:\n a balloon configured to move between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration, and \n a tube extending from a proximal end of the balloon and in fluid communication with an internal reservoir of the balloon, \n wherein the head assembly is configured to receive the insertion guide such that (i) the insertion is removably extendible through the head assembly and (ii) the balloon is configured to extend distally beyond the distal end face of the head assembly when the balloon is in the expanded configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91111
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14806819', '15273358', '14299713', '13181786', '12644236']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8979141938287688
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4516554149085648
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8532883159367485
- Mean Citation Score: 284.214338
- Max Citation Score: 298.05536
- Similarity Product: 218.4323800287628

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

Dataset: test