PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055738
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["227", "180100"]

Abstract:
A tool assembly for a surgical stapling instrument includes anvil and cartridge assemblies movable between open and closed positions. The cartridge assembly includes a cartridge body defining a tissue contact surface and rows of staples. The cartridge body defines a first firing channel associated with a first row of staples and a second firing channel associated with a second row of staples. A firing cam is positioned within the first firing channel and translates therethrough during a first axial translation to fire the first row of staples. The first firing cam is biased to move into the second firing channel upon retraction after the first axial translation such that the first firing cam translates through the second firing channel upon a second axial translation to fire the second row of staples.

Claim (Index 21):
A tool assembly comprising:\n a cartridge body defining a first firing channel and a second firing channel, the first firing channel associated with a first row of staples and the second firing channel associated with a second row of staples; and a first firing cam positioned within the first firing channel of the cartridge body, the first firing cam configured to translate through the first firing channel during a first axial translation of the first firing cam to fire the first row of staples, the first firing cam being biased to move into the second firing channel of the cartridge body upon retraction of the first firing cam after the first axial translation such that the first firing cam moves to a position to translate through the second firing channel upon a second axial translation of the first firing cam to fire the second row of staples.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38596
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14927675', '13652569', '14180578', '15814462', '14994228']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8632965760678517
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5608532434974938
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8330522428108159
- Mean Citation Score: 412.155632
- Max Citation Score: 588.2927
- Similarity Product: 489.8536317797958

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

Dataset: test