PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044845
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["422", "536000"]

Abstract:
A tissue modification apparatus includes at least a first plurality of grippers aligned in a plane adapted to secure a first edge of a patch of tissue. The plurality of grippers are each secured to a first force actuator. The first plurality of grippers are each adapted to pivot relative to the first force actuator about an axis perpendicular to the plane. In some cases, a plurality of grippers are attached to a force actuator by a passive force transfer mechanism. In some cases, individual force actuators are attached by pivoted connections to individual grippers. Methods of treating tissue can secure tensioned tissue to a frame to retain the tension during a treatment (e.g., cross-linking the tissue with a chemical cross-linker).

Claim (Index 12):
A tissue modification apparatus comprising a plurality of grippers adapted to be secured around a periphery of a patch of tissue and a plurality of force actuators attached to the plurality of grippers such that adjacent grippers are adapted to supply an equal tension to the patch of tissue regardless of differences in the elastic properties of different portions of the patch of tissue.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09524
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15250382', '14481477', '15272772', '15340242', '15272747']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7724718607743041
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5206862221719312
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7472932969140668
- Mean Citation Score: 219.574196
- Max Citation Score: 363.16614
- Similarity Product: 266.9930313489353

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

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