PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["606", "08600A"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for a guide assembly for introducing a bone anchor to an operative target site. The guide includes an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve. The outer sleeve has a distal anchor engaging end, a proximal end, and a central passage extending from the distal end to the proximal end. The inner sleeve may be situated in the central passage of the outer sleeve. The inner sleeve is movable being between a first position and a second position. The first position permits insertion of the bone anchor in the central passage. The second position releasably fixes the bone anchor to the guide assembly.

Claim (Index 1):
A guide assembly for introducing a bone anchor to an operative target site, the bone anchor including a housing having a pair of opposed arms defined by first and second opposed slots formed in the housing, comprising:\n an outer sleeve having a distal end, a proximal end, a central passage extending from the distal end to the proximal end, the outer sleeve being divided into a first outer arm and a second outer arm, the first outer arm and second outer arm being separated by a third slot open at the distal end and a fourth slot opposite the third slot and open at the distal end, wherein the first outer arm includes a first projection at the distal end extending into the central passage and the second outer arm includes a second projection at the distal end extending into the central passage, the first and second projections configured to engage first and second recesses formed in the housing arms, a first inner arm slidably coupled to the first outer arm such that the first inner arm translates longitudinally relative to the first outer arm, and a second inner arm slidably coupled to the second outer arm such that the second inner arm translates longitudinally relative to the second outer arm, the first inner arm and second inner arm being separated by a fifth slot and a sixth slot, the fifth slot being aligned with the third slot of the outer sleeve and the sixth slot being aligned with the fourth slot of the outer sleeve, the third and fifth slot together being aligned with the first slot of the housing and the fourth and sixth slot together being aligned with the second slot of the housing when the first and second projections are engaged in the first and second recesses of the housing, the first inner arm and second inner arm moveable between an open position and a closed position for temporarily fixing the housing to the guide assembly, the first inner arm having a first longitudinally extending engagement feature configured to slideably engage a complementary first longitudinally extending engagement feature on the housing when the first inner arm moves from the open position, the second inner arm having a second longitudinally extending engagement feature configured to slideably engage a complementary second longitudinally extending engagement feature on the housing when the second inner arm moves from the open position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.375
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15702742', '14947461', '15346336', '13894355', '12322815']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7852729887601446
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5063340942393478
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.757379099308065
- Mean Citation Score: 335.75776800000006
- Max Citation Score: 349.23727
- Similarity Product: 346.2161785704303

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

Dataset: test