PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126604
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
Embodiments include an end effector including an anvil, the anvil having an anvil face, an anvil blade channel defined by the anvil face, a first pocket row of first row staple pockets, a second pocket row of second row staple pockets, a third pocket row of third row staple pockets, a fourth pocket row of fourth row staple pockets, a fifth pocket row of fifth row staple pockets, a sixth pocket row of sixth row staple pockets, a cartridge having a cartridge face defining a cartridge blade channel, the cartridge being configured to retain a plurality of staples, and a blade, the blade having a cutting edge, where the blade is movable from a first position at a distal end of the cartridge to a second position at a proximal end of the cartridge.

Claim (Index 17):
An end effector for stapling an anatomical structure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the end effector comprising:\n (a) an anvil, the anvil comprising;\n (i) a proximal end, a distal end, and an anvil face; \n (ii) an anvil blade channel defined by the anvil face, wherein the anvil blade channel is positioned to bisect the anvil face into a first half and a second half; \n (ii) a first pocket row including a plurality of first row staple pockets positioned on the first half of the anvil face, wherein a first portion of the plurality of first row staple pockets has a first pocket depth and a second portion of the plurality of first row staple pockets has a second pocket depth different from the first pocket depth; \n (iii) a second pocket row including a plurality of second row staple pockets positioned on the first half of the anvil face, wherein a first portion of the plurality of second row staple pockets has the first pocket depth and a second portion of the plurality of second row staple pockets has the second pocket depth; \n (iv) a third pocket row including a plurality of third row staple pockets positioned on the second half of the anvil face, wherein a first portion of the plurality of third row staple pockets has the first pocket depth and a second portion of the plurality of third row staple pockets has the second pocket depth; and \n (v) a fourth pocket row including a plurality of fourth row staple pockets positioned on the second half of the anvil face, wherein a first portion of the plurality of fourth row staple pockets has the first pocket depth and a second portion of the plurality of fourth row staple pockets has the second pocket depth; \n (b) a cartridge having a proximal end, a distal end, and a cartridge face defining a cartridge blade channel, the cartridge being configured to retain a plurality of staples; and (c) a blade, the blade having a cutting edge, wherein the blade is movable from a first position at the distal end of the cartridge to a second position at a proximal end of the cartridge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.14894
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16126647', '13971022', '13965877', '14206713', '13967716']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.945063756927104
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.537468175132137
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9043041987476071
- Mean Citation Score: 474.686046
- Max Citation Score: 565.4887
- Similarity Product: 446.6600112493515

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