PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15912168
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["604", "506000"]

Abstract:
Exemplary embodiments provide automatic injection devices in which a shroud is automatically deployed to protectively sheath a needle after an injection is performed. Exemplary embodiments also provide shroud deployment assemblies including a shroud and a syringe carrier that, when cooperatively configured in an automatic injection device, ensure that the shroud is automatically and completely deployed after an injection is performed using the automatic injection device. Exemplary embodiments are also configured to ensure that, once the shroud is deployed to an extended position to sheath the needle, accidental forces applied to the shroud do not succeed in subsequently retracting the shroud to a retracted position in which the needle would become exposed.

Claim (Index 7):
An automatic injection device, comprising:\n a housing having an internal bore extending between a proximal end and a distal end, the internal bore including a flange having diametrically opposed openings therein; and a shroud disposed within the internal bore at the proximal end of the housing of the automatic injection device, the shroud movable between a retracted position and an extended position relative to the housing, the shroud comprising:\n a tubular member extending between a proximal end and a distal end, and \n one or more arms extending from the distal end of the tubular member; and \n wherein, as the shroud is deployed from the retracted position to the extended position, the arms of the shroud move forwardly through the diametrically opposed openings in the flange of the housing, wherein the flange is configured to minimize engagement of the arms with an edge of the flange to facilitate movement of the arms of the shroud through the opening of the flange during deployment of the shroud.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18519
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14007849', '12968744', '13580271', '13580146', '14541095']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7690523169216649
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6169713155139512
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7538442167808935
- Mean Citation Score: 346.412048
- Max Citation Score: 578.2760599999998
- Similarity Product: 521.0566614668606

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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