PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126702
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
Embodiments include a surgical instrument having an end effector, the end effector including a first jaw having a first end, a second end, and an anvil, the anvil having an anvil face, a second jaw having a first end, a second end, and a cartridge to house a plurality of staples, the cartridge having a cartridge face, a first coupling that couples the first end of the first jaw to the first end of the second jaw, and a second coupling that movably couples the second end of the first jaw to the second end of the second jaw, where the second coupling includes a rigid link, an elongate tube, where a distal end is coupled with the end effector, a handle, where a distal end of the handle is coupled with a proximal end of the elongate tube, and a drive assembly comprising a motor.

Claim (Index 11):
An end effector for use by a surgeon to staple an anatomical structure of a patient during a minimally invasive procedure, the end effector comprising:\n (a) an anvil comprising a first end, a second end, and an anvil face; (b) a cartridge comprising a first end, a second end, and a cartridge face, the cartridge housing a plurality of staples, wherein the first end of the anvil is coupled with the first end of the cartridge and the second end of the anvil is coupled to the second end of the cartridge; and (c) a buttress, the buttress comprising;\n (i) a first buttress member, the first buttress member being coupled with the anvil face such that the first buttress member covers a portion of the anvil face; and \n (ii) a second buttress member, the second buttress member being coupled with the cartridge face such that the second buttress member covers a portion of the anvil face.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 70.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.62222
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16126647', '16126604', '13967449', '13971022', '15147942']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9420489818868676
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5227631090181467
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9001203945999956
- Mean Citation Score: 460.16793600000005
- Max Citation Score: 569.8819
- Similarity Product: 488.6738406637549

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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