PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944566
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["600", "567000"]

Abstract:
Certain aspects relate to a superelastic medical instrument that of bending elastically through the tortuous pathways of an endoscope, returning to a straight shape upon deployment from the endoscope, and deploying straight along the axis of the end of the bronchoscope (within a tolerated margin) to distances of 2 cm or more.

Claim (Index 12):
The assembly of  claim 6 , wherein a channel formed by an interior surface of the polymer tube is in fluid communication with the lumen to provide pressure through the opening.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.35714
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13773997', '15441025', '14729860', '15284466', '11304218']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5227391482121444
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4960822372648459
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5200734571174146
- Mean Citation Score: 193.638158
- Max Citation Score: 202.29982
- Similarity Product: 116.6901874761474

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