PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947063
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 13):
The method of  claim 12 , wherein said first instrument comprises an elongate handle supporting said trial device, said adjustable stop being movable axially on said handle, said trial device being of size and configuration approximating the size and configuration of a cage implant for insertion into said disc space, said trial device having a distal surface, a proximal surface, a top surface and a bottom surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9863
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15454287', '15946910', '15946874', '14599250', '14744300']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8382982127231718
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5877696080764236
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.813245352258497
- Mean Citation Score: 508.88817200000005
- Max Citation Score: 654.48083
- Similarity Product: 429.3001531710033

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