PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15775659
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["433", "116000"]

Abstract:
A medical instrument grip device consisting of an open tubular element of elastic material for an elongated medical instrument comprises an elongated element having a gripping area and a head element being attached to one of the ends of the elongated element. The tubular element is open in both longitudinal ends and is configured to switch between a rolled up state and a fully unrolled state. Further, the tubular element is configured such that the head element may be forced through the inner opening of the stretched tubular element being in its rolled up state and to create a tight fit around the gripping area when being in its unrolled state.

Claim (Index 1):
A medical instrument grip device consisting of an open tubular element of elastic material for an elongated medical instrument, said instrument comprising an elongated element having a gripping area and a head element being attached to one of the ends of the elongated element,\n wherein the tubular element is open in both longitudinal ends and is configured to switch between a rolled up state and a fully unrolled state, and further that the tubular element is configured such that the head element may be forced through the inner opening of the stretched tubular element being in its rolled up state and to create a tight fit around the gripping area when being in its unrolled state, the cross sectional circumferential distance of the tubular element before stretching being equal or smaller than the cross sectional circumferential distances of the gripping area of the elongated medical instrument onto which the tubular element is to be fitted, wherein the ratio between the circumferential distance of the tubular element before stretching and the circumferential distance of the tubular element after reaching the stretched expanded state when forcing the head element through the inner opening, is between 1:1.1 and 1:5, and wherein the material is chosen such that the tubular element has the ability to contract back to its relaxed state, or at least contract enough to allow the tubular element to make a tight fit on to the gripping area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94915
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14575736', '15582898', '09843211', '10196109', '10391179']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6445739575244556
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4706685287072353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6271834146427335
- Mean Citation Score: 145.877916
- Max Citation Score: 150.6733
- Similarity Product: 101.11130455300808

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

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