PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946874
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
A system for fusing together opposing vertebra of a spine that defines a disc space therebetween. The system comprises a disc preparation instrument and an inserter assembly for use in the interbody fusion procedure. Disc preparation instrument comprises an elongate handle supporting a trial device at one end thereof. Inserter assembly comprises an elongate inserter supporting at one end thereof an interbody cage implant for insertion into the disc space. Disc preparation instrument provides a scoring element that scribes vertebral endplates at an appropriate scored location for anchor blades on the cage implant to engage the vertebral bodies. Inserter is used to introduce cage implant with anchor blades into the disc space to an appropriate depth so that the blades will be precisely positioned at the scored location created by the scoring element for penetration into the vertebral endplates.

Claim (Index 9):
An inserter assembly for use in fusing together a superior vertebra and an inferior vertebra, the superior vertebra including an inferior endplate and a vertebral body, the inferior vertebra including a superior endplate and a vertebral body, the superior and inferior endplates defining a disc space therebetween, said inserter assembly comprising:\n an elongate inserter having a distal end and a proximal end, and a cage implant supported by said inserter at the distal end thereof, wherein said cage implant comprises a cage of size and configuration for insertion into said disc space, said cage having a distal surface, a proximal surface, a top surface and a bottom surface; and wherein said inserter includes an outer sleeve supporting a movable shoulder serving as a depth stop, said shoulder serving as a depth stop, said shoulder being disposed adjacent to the distal end of said inserter and being sized and configured to engage an exterior surface of one of said vertebrae when said cage implant is disposed in said disc space, said inserter having an adjustment member operable to axially move said shoulder along said inserter, said shoulder being spaced axially from said proximal surface of said cage by a distance that is adjustable upon operation of said adjustment member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9863
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15454287', '15946910', '15947063', '14599250', '14692273']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8082487012874591
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6071235536195351
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7881361865206667
- Mean Citation Score: 484.808882
- Max Citation Score: 596.462
- Similarity Product: 514.0964826927185

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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