PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16160025
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["600", "104000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention include a medical device for accessing a patient's body portion and used for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions. Embodiments of the invention may include a particular endoscopic positioning mechanism for placing an endoscope and an additional treatment device within desired body portions in order to assist in diagnosis and treatment of anatomical diseases and disorders. In particular, a medical device according to an embodiment of the invention may include an outer flexible tube and a positioning mechanism configured for rotating one portion of the flexible tube relative to another portion of the flexible tube.

Claim (Index 60):
An endoscopic device, comprising:\n a shaft having a central longitudinal axis, wherein the shaft comprises:\n a proximal section, and \n a distal section, the distal section having:\n an exit opening on a side of the distal section, the exit opening being configured to allow an instrument to exit the distal section from the side of the distal section, \n an illumination opening on the side of the distal section, the illumination opening being configured to allow light to be emitted from the side of the distal section, and \n a visualization opening on the side of the distal section, the visualization opening being configured to allow light to be received from an area proximate the side of the distal section, and \n \n a rotatable coupling that couples the proximal and the distal sections, wherein the rotatable coupling is configured to allow rotation of the exit, the illumination, and the visualization openings about the central longitudinal axis, and relative to the proximal section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03922
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11430067', '14498315', '12791104', '11779532', '11359897']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5061425487036426
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5069877891803262
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.506227072751311
- Mean Citation Score: 281.36227599999995
- Max Citation Score: 305.89728
- Similarity Product: 206.79124684324267

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

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