PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750727
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["604", "263000"]

Abstract:
Needle shielding systems are disclosed. The needle shielding system comprises a needle, a cover sleeve, and a needle shield. The needle has a needle tip and a needle bulge spaced apart from the needle tip. The cover sleeve is slidably mounted over the needle and comprises an end portion having an internal diameter smaller than the width of the needle bulge, and a cover sleeve shaft extending from the end portion towards the needle tip and having an internal diameter larger than the width of the needle bulge. The needle shield comprises a base plate slidably mounted over the needle adjacent to the end portion, and at least one resilient arm extending from the base plate towards the needle tip. In use the needle shield and cover sleeve move along the needle until the end portion contacts the needle bulge and the cover sleeve shaft and the arm cover the needle tip.

Claim (Index 14):
The system according to  claim 12 , wherein the cover sleeve further comprises an expanding portion between the end portion and the cover sleeve shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.89286
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14407810', '12119332', '11497188', '10438522', '14977521']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7942318801574229
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4862779416367313
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7634364863053538
- Mean Citation Score: 164.87822
- Max Citation Score: 172.40077
- Similarity Product: 107.33270480216026

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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