PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126731
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["606", "219000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments include a method of stapling an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the method comprising the steps of providing an end effector, the end effector comprising a first jaw having an anvil, a second jaw having a cartridge housing a plurality of staples, providing a buttress, the buttress comprising a first buttress member and a second buttress member, attaching the first buttress member to the anvil, attaching the second buttress member to the cartridge, deploying the plurality of staples, and cutting the first buttress member and the second buttress member.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of stapling an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the method comprising the steps of:\n providing an end effector, the end effector comprising;\n (a) an anvil comprising a first end, a second end, and an anvil face; \n (b) a cartridge comprising a first end, a second end, and a cartridge face, the cartridge housing a plurality of staples, wherein the first end of the anvil is coupled with the first end of the cartridge and the second end of the anvil is coupled to the second end of the cartridge; and \n providing a buttress, the buttress comprising a first buttress member and a second buttress member; attaching the first buttress member to the anvil face; attaching the second buttress member to the cartridge face; positioning the end effector proximate the anatomical structure; deploying the plurality of staples to puncture the first buttress member and the second buttress member; coupling the first buttress member and the second buttress member to the anatomical structure with the plurality of staples; and cutting the first buttress member and the second buttress member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16126647', '16126604', '15147942', '14926072', '14926029']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8442250022573532
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5792690309747278
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8177294051290906
- Mean Citation Score: 449.794954
- Max Citation Score: 540.3427
- Similarity Product: 474.9237166012288

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

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