PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16165375
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["606", "130000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for introducing and driving flexible members in a patient's body are described herein. In one embodiment, a robotic method includes positioning a flexible elongated member that has a preformed configuration, wherein at least a part of the flexible elongated member has a first member disposed around it, and wherein the first member includes a first wire for bending the first member or for maintaining the first member in a bent configuration, releasing at least some tension in the first wire to relax the first member, and advancing the first member distally relative to the flexible elongated member while the first member is in a relaxed configuration.

Claim (Index 24):
The method of  claim 23 , wherein the second elongate member includes one or more pullwires to articulate a distal tip of the second elongate member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05263
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14603836', '13174605', '13173994', '13174563', '15390355']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8448502802433783
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.580348282700184
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8184000804890589
- Mean Citation Score: 478.460902
- Max Citation Score: 604.3671
- Similarity Product: 443.2521533960045

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