PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859923
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["606", "001000"]

Abstract:
A force transducer is coupled to a distal portion of a shaft of a surgical instrument. The force transducer includes proximal and distal portions, radial ribs, and a plurality of strain gauges. The radial ribs form a plurality of through passages. The surgical instrument further includes a flush manifold that receives a liquid from a proximal portion of the shaft, and that directs the liquid along a first subset of through passages of the plurality of through passages toward the distal portion of the force transducer. A plenum at the distal portion of the force transducer collects the liquid from the first subset of through passages and redirects the liquid back toward the proximal portion of the shaft along a second subset of through passages of the plurality of through passages different from the first subset of through passages.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of cleaning one or more linkages of an instrument comprising:\n passing liquid through a passage of an instrument shaft of the instrument, the instrument shaft having a first end oriented in a first direction and a second end oriented in a second direction opposite the first direction, the or each of one or more linkages passing through the instrument shaft, the passage having a first end oriented in the first direction and a second end oriented in the second direction, the first end of the passage being coupled to a flush manifold of the instrument to receive the liquid; receiving the liquid from the second end of the passage by a plenum of the instrument; and redirecting by the plenum the received liquid toward the first end of the instrument shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0625
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12468618', '13897700', '14032491', '11958772', '14100924']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7488854443772818
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5252428493332645
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7265211848728801
- Mean Citation Score: 324.47082400000005
- Max Citation Score: 409.69992
- Similarity Product: 307.98331588783265

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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