PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920196
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
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 8):
The end effector of  claim 1 , wherein the engagement element is selected from the group consisting of a wire, suture, thread, chain, link, and combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96491
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15129385', '15129366', '15633399', '13971022', '14206713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.94712901190824
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5074763909348464
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9031637498109008
- Mean Citation Score: 361.443818
- Max Citation Score: 458.1969
- Similarity Product: 284.3794659992874

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