PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16420841
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["604", "164040"]

Abstract:
Surgical devices having a plurality of outwardly-biased flexible fins capable of inward movement such that the fins converge to provide both a passageway for surgical instruments to traverse towards a surgical site, and provide a substantially impermeable seal, thus providing for fluid retention during the surgical procedure. The outwardly-biased flexible fins provide for soft tissue compression, decreasing the length of the lumen or passageway through which instruments pass, allowing for a wider range of movement of instruments and better access to the surgical site, especially in patients with greater amounts of fat tissue that would otherwise require longer lumen lengths in prior art endoscopic cannulas.

Claim (Index 1):
A surgical device for providing soft tissue compression and fluid retention during surgical procedures, said surgical device comprising:\n a base member having an aperture extending from a proximal end to a distal end; and a plurality of flexible biasing devices attached to said base, said biasing devices having shafts distally extending from said base, wherein said shafts are naturally biased in an outward direction, wherein said biasing devices are flexible such that, following insertion of at least a portion of said device into a patient during a surgical procedure, at least a portion of said shafts are compressed inwardly to form a substantially impermeable seal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15626431', '14300755', '13626206', '12882030', '14599611']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.796507473207125
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5377232069577261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7706290465821851
- Mean Citation Score: 291.301128
- Max Citation Score: 408.73
- Similarity Product: 328.9108848679066

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

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