PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962114
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "206000"]

Abstract:
Access devices including access ports and retractors, which enhance the working area and access to a surgical site. The access port includes a tubular body with at least one sidewall defining an interior path along the length of the tubular body. The sidewall includes a rigid portion and a flexible portion. The flexible portion is able to stretch or deform, for example, to accommodate an angled trajectory of a surgical implement. A surgical access device for retracting tissue includes a plurality of retractor blades. The outer surface of the retractor blades form a substantially circular cross-sectional configuration with a plurality of spiral ridges projecting therefrom such that advancement of the retractor into the surgical site may be improved.

Claim (Index 4):
The device of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of retractor blades are self-tapping.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71622
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14212903', '11441753', '12242726', '12242711', '15408544']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.520122739715891
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4764368515857399
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5157541509028759
- Mean Citation Score: 194.906572
- Max Citation Score: 216.16635
- Similarity Product: 164.54702620974183

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

Dataset: test