PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862349
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["606", "167000"]

Abstract:
In the field of minimally invasive or laparoscopic surgery, in there exists several devices for the purposes of removing large tissues from the abdomen through the use of only small holes. All of these devices, to date, to the knowledge of the inventor have involved morcellation, or the breaking apart of these tissues into small pieces. The surgical device, through the use of a unique engulfing sheet or engulfing bag, has the capability of removing a tissue from the abdomen through small minimally invasive or laparoscopic incisions without the use of morcellation. The device relies upon mechanical energy to force a large object through a smaller hole without the necessity to break the object down into smaller pieces.

Claim (Index 2):
A Ring Harness device, made of hard material such as metal, diamond, plastic, kevlar, stone, or another material, and containing an internal ring, of small diameter which is to be placed inside the patient's body, this will also contain an external outside diameter of larger diameter that will be designed to stay outside of the patient's body, the size of the Ring Harness device will depend on the area of the body being worked on, as the distance between the top exterior ring, outside the patient's body, and the smaller interior ring will need to traverse into the body cavity that the mass is being removed from, the inside diameter of the ring harness should be small enough diameter to facilitate the procedure being performed through a much smaller incision than the largest diameter of the tissue mass being removed, this would include, but not be limited to, removing large masses through 10 mm to 30 mm diameters as is commonly used in many aspects of endoscopic surgery, the device also includes a mechanical device on the ring harness including one or a series of gears or rolling pins to pull the engulfing sheet or engulfing bag through the harness with sufficient force to reduce the entrapped tissue to the diameter of the harness, this mechanical device, may be of an electronic type or may be powered by a manual crank type of system to be powered by the user of the device, the described gears or rolling pins bay be on the outside of the bag only, or duplicated on the inside of the bag as well by doubling the ring harness with a second interfacing inner ring harness, the gears or rolling pins of the mechanical device may pull the bag through the ring harness using guiding tracks, if present, or may simply articulate with the surface of the engulfing bag or engulfing sheet either by interlocking with the particular material of the layers of the bag or by using sheer force, in the case of a duplicated set of gears or rolling pins on a second internal interfacing ring the same traction could be accomplished by compression between the two sets of gears or rolling pins, the ring harness pictured in this particular illustration extends into the patient's body cavity and does require an additional device, either inside or outside the patient, in order to prevent the tissue mass being removed from coming into contact with the internal or external surfaces of the patient. In other configurations of this device, the ring harness may be of a different size and shape in order to work with other devices which may have been used to initially enter the patient's body or may be instruments customary to performing surgery on this area of the body. In some configurations the ring harness may be placed in conjunction with these devices. In the configuration pictured the ring harness, which may be made of metal, plastic, kevlar, or other materials, has sufficient size to avoid the direct contact of the engulfing sheet or engulfing bag with the internal or external surfaces of the patient's body. Other configurations may not require such large dimensions because of the interface with existing devices such as trochars.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96923
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15664758', '15524558', '14986890', '14885072', '15094742']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.743502705476154
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4804761496575176
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7172000498942904
- Mean Citation Score: 172.15264800000003
- Max Citation Score: 189.78311
- Similarity Product: 123.2006948550546

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

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