PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16355103
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["606", "08600A"]

Abstract:
A tool set for implanting a rod in a human spine in conjunction with bone screws.

Claim (Index 16):
A tool set for use in implantation of spinal bone screws, the tool set comprising:\n a) a bone anchor comprising:\n a pair of laterally spaced upstanding arms forming a rod-receiving channel therebetween, each of the laterally spaced upstanding arms comprising:\n an external surface extending from a front side to a back side of the receiver; \n an upper surface; and \n a non-horizontal groove formed on the external surface of the receiver, the non-horizontal opening groove spaced from the upper surface and slanted relative to the longitudinal axis of the receiver; and \n \n b) an elongate guide tool comprising:\n a body with a longitudinally extending through-bore extending from a top opening to a bottom opening of the body, the body defining a longitudinal axis of the elongate guide tool; \n a laterally extending pass-through slot extending upwardly from the bottom opening and joined with the through-bore, the pass-through slot defining a pair of spaced opposed legs and being sized and shaped so as to receive the rod therethrough, the pass-through slot being alignable with the channel of the bone screw receiver; and \n an inwardly projecting attachment structure near the bottom opening sized and shaped to cooperatively engage and rotatably mate with the non-horizontal groove of the bone anchor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.13333
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14733222', '16028796', '15481192', '13815933', '11272508']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9122824803597808
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5892778179721047
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8799820141210132
- Mean Citation Score: 515.952464
- Max Citation Score: 581.1896
- Similarity Product: 506.8190739307405

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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