PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126647
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 28):
A surgical instrument to staple and resect an anatomical structure of a patient, the surgical instrument comprising:\n (a) an end effector, the end effector comprising;\n (i) a first jaw having a first end, a second end, an anvil having an anvil face, and a first channel; \n (ii) a second jaw having a first end, a second end, a cartridge having a cartridge face, and a second channel; \n (iii) a first coupling that couples the first end of the first jaw to the first end of the second jaw; \n (iv) a second coupling that movably couples the second end of the first jaw to the second end of the second jaw, wherein the second coupling includes a rigid link; and \n (v) an I-shaped blade, the I-shaped blade comprising a blade portion having a cutting edge, at least one upper lateral arm, wherein the at least one upper lateral arm is slidably positioned in the first channel, and at least one lower lateral arm, wherein the at least one lower lateral arm is slidably positioned in the second channel; and \n (b) an elongate tube, the elongate tube having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the distal end is coupled with the end effector; (c) a handle, the handle having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the distal end of the handle is coupled with the proximal end of the elongate tube; and (d) a drive assembly comprising a motor to actuate the end effector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.62222
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16126604', '13967449', '12894367', '13971022', '13971006']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9327090526370424
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5448139325614375
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.893919540629482
- Mean Citation Score: 429.430364
- Max Citation Score: 529.2029
- Similarity Product: 429.7696774614811

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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