PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16263300
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["227", "180100"]

Abstract:
Surgical staplers and methods of their use are provided. In one embodiment, a surgical stapler includes a tubular shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, a handle extending from the proximal end of the tubular shaft, a head assembly extending from the distal end of the tubular shaft, and an insertion guide configured to extend through the head assembly. The insertion guide includes an expandable member configured to move between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein the surgical stapler further comprises a tubular shaft extending from a proximal end of the head assembly, and wherein the method further comprises advancing the insertion guide through the tubular shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91111
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14806819', '15273358', '14299713', '13181786', '12644236']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9082942683067908
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4541933936577221
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8628841808418839
- Mean Citation Score: 284.214338
- Max Citation Score: 298.05536
- Similarity Product: 217.06745790409093

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

Dataset: test