PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15994000
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["112", "475080"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for preparing a ligament graft for a ligament reconstruction procedure are provided. In general, the described techniques utilize a graft preparation system having a holder and a delivery suture assembly removably coupled thereto. The delivery suture assembly can include a spine coupled with an anchor suture configured to form a self-tightening knot used to position the assembly around a graft and a plurality of suture windings configured to be affixed to the graft when the assembly is deployed. The assembly is delivered to the graft using the holder and the sutures can be affixed to the graft without penetrating therethrough. The spine helps to evenly distribute the load among the windings compressing the graft which are thus are capable of withstanding increased loads. Thus, an improved, simplified, and time- and labor-saving approach to preparing ligament grafts is provided.

Claim (Index 13):
The graft preparation system of  claim 1 , wherein windings from the plurality of windings include first and second tails extending from the second end of the spine opposite to the first end of spine being coupled to the anchor suture.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9359
- Patent Class: 112.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14327358', '14977882', '14584235', '14579537', '15915741']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6775452031674186
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5628567307858071
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6660763559292574
- Mean Citation Score: 290.90033200000005
- Max Citation Score: 446.65973
- Similarity Product: 428.27207960558167

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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