PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16020119
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "08600A"]

Abstract:
Devices, systems, and methods for inserting a vertebral stabilization member, such as a rod. The insertion device includes an outer guide tube, a pin assembly including a pin and a pusher member extending therethrough. The insertion device is configured to actuate a rod between a first orientation and a second orientation angled with respect to the first orientation in order to position the rod in an appropriate location for attachment to bone.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of minimally invasively installing a system for stabilizing a spine, comprising:\n creating a first minimally invasive opening in a body of a patient; positioning a first anchor to a vertebral body within the patient through the first opening with a first access sleeve connected thereto, the first access sleeve including a central channel extending therethrough and defining a first longitudinal axis; releasably clamping a rod to an insertion device between first and second clamping members at a clamping location spaced from a midline of the rod and wherein no portion of the first and second clamping members extend beyond a perimeter of the rod in a direction transverse to a longitudinal axis of the rod, positioning the rod through the first opening to engage the first anchor, wherein the rod is rotatably linked to the insertion device, the insertion device and the rod are configured and dimensioned to be received within the central channel such that the insertion device and rod are moveable along the first longitudinal axis to position the rod adjacent the first anchor; positioning the rod along the first longitudinal axis through the central channel in the first access sleeve in a first orientation substantially parallel to the first longitudinal axis of the first access sleeve; and rotating the rod with respect to the insertion device independent of movement along the first longitudinal axis such that the rod extends in a second orientation angled with respect to the first orientation to position the rod in relation to the first anchor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64583
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12413058', '14526707', '11244036', '14516631', '13648836']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7858707873347542
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4807125049452268
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7553549590958015
- Mean Citation Score: 266.47978
- Max Citation Score: 280.56992
- Similarity Product: 223.0007472461129

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

Dataset: test