PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16352586
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
An end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the end effector including an anvil that includes a first end, a second end, and a face, and a cartridge that is configured to house a plurality of staples and that includes a first end, a second end, and a face, and an engagement element that movably couples the first end of the anvil to the first end of the cartridge, and a knife, the knife having a first flange, a second flange, and a web including a cutting edge, and where the second end of the anvil is movably coupled to the second end of the cartridge, each of the anvil and the cartridge is insertable through a trocar, and the end effector is remotely operable from outside the patient.

Claim (Index 39):
An end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the end effector comprising:\n a first clamp arm, the first clamp arm comprising a proximal end, a distal end, and a first clamp arm face, wherein the first clamp arm includes a first alignment feature; a second clamp arm, the second clamp arm comprising a proximal end, a distal end, and a second clamp arm face, the second clamp arm being positioned substantially opposite the first clamp arm, wherein the second clamp arm includes a second alignment feature, wherein the first alignment feature cooperates with the second alignment feature such that the first clamp arm and the second clamp arm maintain lateral alignment; a cartridge, the cartridge being associated with the first clamp arm or the second clamp arm, wherein the cartridge is operably configured to retain a plurality of staples; a knife, wherein the knife is operably configured to move longitudinally from a first position of the end effector to a second position of the end effector; and wherein the proximal end of the first clamp arm is movable coupled with the proximal end of the second clamp arm, and the distal end of the first clamp arm is movably coupled to the distal end of the first clamp arm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96491
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15920196', '15921000', '15129385', '15129366', '15633399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.84593595657237
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5192913184785424
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8132714927629872
- Mean Citation Score: 443.0270780000001
- Max Citation Score: 472.08017
- Similarity Product: 391.16545503563583

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

Dataset: test