PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767934
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["606", "167000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are provided to facilitate the minimally invasive removal of tissue and to facilitate the direct approach to anesthetizing a body wall of a patient. A pull-type cutting device also is disclosed to introduce an opening into the body wall to provide access for intra-chest surgical interventions, for example a minimally invasive biopsy technique as also described for excising target tissue from within a patient, including a nodule from within the patient's lung.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of excising a nodule within a lung of a patient, comprising anchoring a catch wire from the nodule, tensioning the catch wire through a tissue tract extending between the nodule and an opening in a body wall, dilating the tissue tract via inflation of a dilation catheter within said tract that extends through a pleura surrounding the lung and into the lung up to the nodule, and advancing an excision device along the catch wire to excise the target tissue against a counterforce applied by tensioning the catch wire.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53846
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11996944', '11286445', '14814349', '15530336', '11178243']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7869226501429202
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5374978409160969
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7619801692202378
- Mean Citation Score: 252.73858400000003
- Max Citation Score: 456.11523
- Similarity Product: 341.0848686621523

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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