PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920196
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
An end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the anatomical structure having a first side and a second side, the end effector including an anvil that includes a first end, a second end, and a face, and a cartridge that is configured to house a plurality of staples and that includes a first end, a second end, and a face, and an engagement element that movably couples the first end of the anvil to the first end of the cartridge, and a knife, the knife having a first flange, a second flange, and a web including a cutting edge, and where the second end of the anvil is movably coupled to the second end of the cartridge, each of the anvil and the cartridge is insertable through a trocar, and the end effector is remotely operable from outside the patient.

Claim (Index 16):
The end effector of  claim 15 , the alignment mechanism comprising;\n a. a housing, the housing extending from the cartridge adjacent the first end of the cartridge, wherein the knife is retained within the housing when the end effector transitions from the open position to the closed position; and b. a recess being at least partially defined by the anvil, the recess being configured to receive the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96491
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15129385', '15129366', '15633399', '13971022', '14206713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9311329050830068
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5174181983264049
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8897614344073467
- Mean Citation Score: 361.443818
- Max Citation Score: 458.1969
- Similarity Product: 348.6012285173536

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