PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863049
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["600", "213000"]

Abstract:
A modular surgical retractor including a handle and a blade. The handle includes a base and a neck. The neck projects from an end of the base to a tail region. The blade includes a head section and a blade member. The head section includes opposing side walls and a floor combining to define a slot sized to receive the neck. The blade member projects from the head section. The blade is removably attached to the handle. In an attached state, an attachment face of each side wall contacts the end of the base, and the floor contacts the tail region. In some embodiments, a light source, such as an LED, is disposed within the neck and arranged to emit light along a face of the blade member. Two or more additional blades are provided, each additional blade including the head section and a differently configured blade member.

Claim (Index 1):
A modular surgical retractor comprising:\n a handle including:\n a base defining opposing, first and second ends, \n a neck projecting from the first end to a tail region; and \n a first blade including:\n a head section including a first side wall, an opposing second side wall and a floor combining to define a slot sized to receive the neck, \n a blade member projecting from the head section; \n wherein the handle and the first blade are configured to provide an attached state in which the first blade is removably attached to the handle, the attached state including an attachment face of each of the side walls in contact with the first end and the floor in contact with the tail region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44776
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13624622', '14500605', '15598120', '15716338', '14872482']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4757818231238428
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4831014375795299
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4765137845694115
- Mean Citation Score: 215.441672
- Max Citation Score: 234.93028
- Similarity Product: 174.06961381866697

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

Dataset: test