PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15772222
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["206", "364000"]

Abstract:
A cover for a probe  12 , such as an ultrasonic probe, the cover comprising a flexible elongate pouch  1  and a mouth portion  2  for inserting the probe  12  into the pouch, the mouth portion  2  comprising sealing means to enable the mouth portion to be formed into sealing engagement with a proximal end  11  of the probe. Also, a method of preventing a decontaminated ultrasonic probe from contamination comprising the step of, immediately after disinfection, inserting the ultrasonic probe  12  into a cover comprising a flexible elongate pouch  1  and a mouth portion  2  for inserting the probe  12  into to pouch, the mouth portion  2  comprising a deformably rigid portion  3 , and deforming the mouth portion  2  into a sealing engagement with a proximal end  11  of the probe, wherein no undisinfected portion of the probe  12  enters the pouch  1.

Claim (Index 3):
A cover according to  claim 1  wherein the pouch is formed from two opposed elongate sheets of plastic, each sheet having two parallel elongate sides and two parallel short sides, the sheets being fused on each elongate side and on a first short side, the second short side defining a mouth portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.85185
- Patent Class: 206.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15346997', '11675986', '13235522', '14202952', '12925288']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7846404159732877
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4777511244006734
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7539514868160263
- Mean Citation Score: 147.12756999999996
- Max Citation Score: 154.53322
- Similarity Product: 103.660897858665

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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