PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185506
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["606", "219000"]

Abstract:
A system for stapling tissue comprises a flexible endoscope and an operative head including a pair of opposed, curved tissue clamping jaws sized to pass through an esophagus, the jaws being moveable with respect to one another between an open tissue receiving configuration and a closed tissue clamping configuration, a first one of the curved jaws including a stapling mechanism and a second one of the jaws including a staple forming anvil surface, the stapling mechanism including staple slots through which staples are fired arranged in a row extending from a proximal end of the first jaw to a distal end thereof in combination with a control handle which, when the operative head is in an operative position within one of a patient's stomach and esophagus, remains outside the patient, the control handle including a first actuator for moving the jaws relative to one another and a second actuator for operating the stapling mechanism.

Claim (Index 21):
An apparatus for stapling tissue, comprising:\n a first jaw and a second jaw, at least one of the first jaw and the second jaw being movable with respect to the other of the first jaw and the second jaw from a first configuration in which the first jaw and the second jaw are separated from each other at a first distance to receive tissue to a second configuration in which the first jaw and the second jaw are clamped together at a second distance to hold tissue therebetween for stapling, a staple carrying portion of the first jaw defining slots through which staples are configured to pass; an anvil surface defined on the second jaw opposing the first jaw; a beam comprising an upper beam portion and a lower beam portion connected by a central web portion, a leading edge of the central web portion having a cutting blade and being more distal than at least one of a trailing edge of the upper beam portion and a trailing edge of the lower beam portion; a staple pusher configured to cause a staple to move from a first position within the staple carrying portion to a second position outside the staple carrying portion; and a pusher operatively coupled to the beam, and configured to move the beam and to cause the staple pusher to move for firing; wherein the beam is configured to engage the first jaw below an outermost surface of the first jaw and engage the second jaw below an outermost surface of the second jaw for clamping and alignment; and the pusher and the central web portion are coplanar with a channel defined in a tissue contacting surface of each of the first jaw and the second jaw when the beam moves distally.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 72.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11688
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15617835', '15018000', '11471126', '13856819', '11410346']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7904894044462885
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5588807717324236
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.767328541174902
- Mean Citation Score: 367.412918
- Max Citation Score: 426.85025
- Similarity Product: 420.48200205734366

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

Dataset: test