PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958351
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["600", "139000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure describes a flexible-rigid hybrid design for an endoscope and attachment mechanisms for removably coupling and decoupling the endoscope to a handle portion and/or a tool portion of a variety of different instruments. Some implementations describe designs for instruments that may be coupled to the flexible-rigid endoscope described herein or other endoscopes. Such instruments may include sinus and laryngeal forceps, a laryngeal syringe gun, an endoscopic Eustachian tube balloon dilator, an endoscopic tracheal dilator, and an endoscopic trans-oral esophageal balloon dilator. Some implementations describe an endoscope that may be removably coupled to a portable control box using a connector cable.

Claim (Index 24):
The endoscope system of  claim 14 , further comprising a removable insert having first and second channel grooves, wherein the first channel groove attaches to an instrument shaft of the instrument and the second channel groove attaches to the distal flexible end of the endoscope.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75806
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11930786', '12561147', '11930716', '11929147', '14501865']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5856828543913667
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.492160409939183
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5763306099461484
- Mean Citation Score: 255.29687
- Max Citation Score: 276.23834
- Similarity Product: 193.58781265476227

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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