PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966699
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "210000"]

Abstract:
An access system is provided for establishing an access path to a surgical site within a patient. The access system comprises an access portal defining a working channel with a central axis, and an adaptor with a mating section mountable to the access portal. The adaptor is selectively rotatable about the central axis. The access portal includes a plurality of openings and the adaptor includes a plurality of projections, each of the projections and openings being arranged so that, in a first orientation, the openings and projections align to allow mounting of the adaptor to the access portal and, in a second orientation, the openings and projections do not align to prevent disassociation between the adaptor and the access portal. The adaptor also includes a holder for a viewing device, the viewing device being movable with the adaptor about the access portal and vertically translatable relative to the access portal.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 12 , further including the step of moving the at least one projection of the adaptor within the channel between the first and second flanges of the access portal to rotate the adaptor about the central axis of the working channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49231
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15704489', '14640608', '13600889', '12069721', '12460795']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5412113426581514
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5622512981380595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5433153382061422
- Mean Citation Score: 316.697114
- Max Citation Score: 492.8459
- Similarity Product: 367.08818032387495

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

Dataset: test