PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000360
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["128", "898000"]

Abstract:
A surgical ophthalmic procedure performs a medial canthoplasty of an eyelid system having the following steps: performing a medial subcilliary skin incision in the medial inferior-eyelid skin, excising an ellipse of the medial inferior-eyelid skin extending medially upwardly; exposing the medial canthal tendon, creating an orbicularis flap from the inferior-lid orbicularis muscle, suturing the orbicularis flap to the medial canthal tendon, probing the lacrimal system to confirm the integrity of the canalicular system, excising the excess portion of the medial superior-eyelid skin, closing the medial canthal skin with deep fixation in the medial canthus, closing the medial subciliary skin incision or extending the subciliary incision, making a supraciliary skin incision in the upper lid medially and performing an orbicularisorrhapy by suturing the orbicularis of the upper lid to the orbicularis of the lid to further close the lid.

Claim (Index 2):
The surgical ophthalmic procedure according to  claim 1 , wherein the eyelid system further comprises a superior-lid orbicularis muscle having a superior-lid orbicularis muscle medial portion and the surgical ophthalmic procedure further comprises an obicularsorrhaphy suturing an inferior-lid orbicularis muscle medial portion to a superior-lid orbicularis muscle medial portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25758
- Patent Class: 128.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11429057', '14868326', '15811508', '14622284', '15199042']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6081370301412554
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4892852936994305
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.596251856497073
- Mean Citation Score: 185.09733
- Max Citation Score: 217.49466
- Similarity Product: 149.482348428787

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

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