PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15746994
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["606", "205000"]

Abstract:
A medical instrument according to the present disclosure includes: a contact portion configured to contact body tissue; a drive unit configured to generate drive force for causing the contact portion to contact the body tissue; and a limiter mechanism configured to impose restriction on transmission of the drive force to the contact portion, in accordance with contact force of the contact portion with respect to the body tissue. This configuration makes it possible to restrict force applied to body tissue during surgery, and to reduce failure risk, with a simple configuration.

Claim (Index 4):
The medical instrument according to  claim 2 , wherein the contact portion includes an end effector configured to grip the body tissue.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12847269', '10032317', '14959262', '12278251', '12717665']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7670771073413738
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4563658244082386
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7360059790480603
- Mean Citation Score: 150.136418
- Max Citation Score: 152.34622
- Similarity Product: 107.0465180422783

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

Dataset: test