PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15921000
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["227", "176100"]

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, a cartridge that is configured to house a plurality of staples, and a compression mechanism that movably couples the anvil to the cartridge.

Claim (Index 8):
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 comprising:\n an anvil that includes a first end, a second end, and a face that is positionable on the first side of the anatomical structure; a cartridge that is configured to house a plurality of staples and that includes a first end, a second end, and a face that is positionable on the second side of the anatomical structure; and a compression mechanism that movably couples the first end of the anvil to the first end of the cartridge, the compression mechanism comprising;\n a. a compression slide; and \n b. a compression pin operably configured to translate within the compression slide to compress the anatomical structure between the anvil and the cartridge; \n wherein the second end of the anvil is pivotally 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 with at least a portion of one of the anvil and the cartridge being movable toward the other to clamp the end effector to the anatomical structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15129385', '15920196', '15129366', '15633399', '13971022']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9366240233783674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5180702383396755
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8947686448744981
- Mean Citation Score: 399.20111800000006
- Max Citation Score: 471.0981
- Similarity Product: 457.6894846605957

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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