PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["600", "129000"]

Abstract:
A variety of tools and techniques are provided to support removal of ligamentum flavum in a spinal canal and other, similar tissue removal procedures.

Claim (Index 3):
The device of  claim 1  wherein sliding the second tube in a second direction opposite to the first direction disengages the plurality of elements from the one or more flaps and an interior surface of the first tube urges the one or more flaps into the undeployed state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.13043
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14501865', '14501932', '13588969', '14550436', '14234014']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.523707396358848
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4816147357979582
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.519498130302759
- Mean Citation Score: 183.371742
- Max Citation Score: 188.71501
- Similarity Product: 124.53696257032992

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