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 30):
An apparatus for stapling tissue, comprising:\n a stapling head including a first jaw and a second jaw, at least one of the first jaw and the second jaw being movable to approximate with respect to the other of the first jaw and the second jaw, the first jaw including a staple carrying portion and defining slots configured to pass staples therethrough and the second jaw including a staple forming portion; and a beam having an upper beam portion and a lower beam portion connected by a central web portion for clamping and alignment, the upper beam portion being configured to engage the first jaw below an outermost surface of the first jaw and the lower beam portion being configured to engage the second jaw below an outermost surface of the second jaw for clamping and alignment as the central web portion travels along a channel defined in a tissue contacting surface of each of the first jaw and the second jaw; and a pusher operatively coupled to the beam, and configured to move the beam and to cause a staple pusher to fire a staple from within the first jaw to entirely outside the first jaw as 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): 0.7915414926845817
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5560504891077552
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7679923923268991
- Mean Citation Score: 367.412918
- Max Citation Score: 426.85025
- Similarity Product: 391.7983245985358

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

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