PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863022
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["623", "013130"]

Abstract:
Devices and methods for securing a graft with respect to bone are provided. One exemplary embodiment of a surgical implant includes a flexible filament body and a suture filament or repair construct that extends through the filament body at multiple locations. The repair construct is formed into one or more coils, which can receive a graft. The flexible filament body can be configured to be actuated between unstressed and anchoring configurations, the latter of which sets a location of the suture filament, and associated graft, in a bone tunnel. More particularly, the flexible filament body can ball up, or become denser, to a size that cannot pass into the bone tunnel in which the suture filament holding the graft is disposed. The present disclosure also provides for feedback units to assist a surgeon in knowing a location of the implant. Further, other exemplary devices and methods are provided.

Claim (Index 1):
A surgical implant, comprising:\n a flexible filament body; and a suture filament extending through the flexible filament body at two or more separate locations on the flexible filament body to form one or more coils such that a portion of each coil is disposed on a top side of the body and a portion of each coil is disposed on a bottom side of the body with each coil defining an opening thereof, the suture filament also having a slidable portion formed therefrom such that movement of the slidable portion towards and away from the flexible filament body causes a size of at least one opening of the one or more coils to change, and a first location and a second location of the two or more separate locations on the flexible filament body being located on opposed sides of the flexible filament body along a length of the body, with the slidable portion of the suture filament being disposed between the first and second locations; wherein the flexible filament body and suture filament are configured so application of tension to the one or more coils in a direction away from the flexible filament body causes the flexible filament body to constrict such that the first and second locations on the flexible filament body are located closer together than they were prior to the flexible filament body constricting when the flexible filament body is extended along its length.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15001184', '14103167', '13793514', '14986584', '13465299']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.809775216874852
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5801356188282216
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.786811257070189
- Mean Citation Score: 388.143662
- Max Citation Score: 552.6651
- Similarity Product: 457.1971472942949

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

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