PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958351
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["600", "139000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure describes a flexible-rigid hybrid design for an endoscope and attachment mechanisms for removably coupling and decoupling the endoscope to a handle portion and/or a tool portion of a variety of different instruments. Some implementations describe designs for instruments that may be coupled to the flexible-rigid endoscope described herein or other endoscopes. Such instruments may include sinus and laryngeal forceps, a laryngeal syringe gun, an endoscopic Eustachian tube balloon dilator, an endoscopic tracheal dilator, and an endoscopic trans-oral esophageal balloon dilator. Some implementations describe an endoscope that may be removably coupled to a portable control box using a connector cable.

Claim (Index 23):
The endoscope system of  claim 14 , wherein the tool portion of the instrument comprises one or more elongated tubes spaced along a distal shaft of the instrument through which the distal flexible end of the endoscope is inserted.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75806
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11930786', '12561147', '11930716', '11929147', '14501865']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6151288085705829
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4893993953026413
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6025558672437887
- Mean Citation Score: 255.29687
- Max Citation Score: 276.23834
- Similarity Product: 212.3925733418548

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

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