PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16386692
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "563000"]

Abstract:
An improved flexible endoscopic instrument to precisely and efficiently obtains samples of flat polyps and multiple polyps from a patient by debriding one or more polyps and retrieving the debrided polyps without having to alternate between using a separate cutting tool and a separate sample retrieving tool and may be used with an endoscope. In one aspect, the cutting tool is coupled to a flexible torque coil or torque rope that is configured to transfer rotational energy from a powered actuator through the length of the endoscope onto the cutting tool.

Claim (Index 17):
The endoscopic instrument of  claim 14 , wherein the proximal connector is rotationally and fluidly coupled to the flexible torque component.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56667
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14537362', '14280202', '14961425', '14501957', '14501932']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6005330960682712
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6157636156658998
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6020561480280341
- Mean Citation Score: 557.4576900000002
- Max Citation Score: 581.0509999999998
- Similarity Product: 522.1190844578147

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