PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16268254
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["606", "232000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of systems and methods for fixing soft tissue are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, soft tissue may be fixed to an attachment surface (such as bone, other soft tissue, other implants, or allograft or xenograft materials) by providing a helical suture in the soft tissue, wherein the soft tissue has a longitudinal axis along which the soft tissue undergoes tension under normal physiological conditions, and wherein a longitudinal axis of the helical suture in the soft tissue is oriented parallel to the longitudinal axis of the soft tissue; and securing the helical suture to an attachment surface.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 8 , wherein the first helical suture and the second helical suture overlap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84746
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15164616', '13214079', '13214115', '13214109', '13214088']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.744023669904507
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4955859071994907
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7191798936340054
- Mean Citation Score: 205.266628
- Max Citation Score: 284.03326
- Similarity Product: 213.060107990154

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

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