PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926069
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "267000"]

Abstract:
Bone anchor assemblies are disclosed herein that can provide for improved fixation as compared with traditional bone anchor assemblies. An exemplary assembly can include a bracket or wing that extends down from the receiver member. The distal portion of the wing can define a bone anchor opening through which one or more auxiliary bone anchors can be disposed to augment the fixation of the assembly's primary bone anchor. A distal surface of the distal portion of the wing can be obliquely angled relative to a proximal-distal axis of the spanning portion to face one of a caudal direction or a cephalad direction. A distal surface of the distal portion of the wing can be obliquely angled relative to the proximal-distal axis of the spanning portion to face one of a medial direction or a lateral direction. Surgical methods using the bone anchor assemblies described herein are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 23):
The method of  claim 22  wherein driving the auxiliary bone anchor through the bone anchor opening into bone comprises driving the auxiliary bone anchor through the bone anchor opening at an oblique angle in a cephalad direction such that the bone anchor and the auxiliary bone anchor are respectively driven into a same vertebral level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24638
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15073020', '15623444', '15208872', '15208847', '15430188']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8446194123550538
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5388816471678486
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8140456358363333
- Mean Citation Score: 378.97514
- Max Citation Score: 491.16904000000005
- Similarity Product: 312.5988816416645

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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