PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "279000"]

Abstract:
Method and apparatus for performing medial-to-lateral sacroiliac fusion. An aiming guide is used to place a guide wire into a sacroiliac joint to facilitate driving a fusion implant into the joint.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of fusing a sacroiliac joint comprising the steps of:\n (a) providing a guide having:\n a first cannulated leg; \n a second cannulated leg extending generally parallel to the first cannulated leg; and \n a handle extending generally perpendicularly to the first leg and the second leg; \n (b) inserting a first cannulated screw into a sacrum; (c) inserting a first guide wire into the first cannulated screw; (d) inserting the first leg of an aiming guide over the first guide wire; (e) inserting a second guide wire through the second leg of the aiming guide and into bone; (f) removing the aiming guide while maintaining the position of the second guide wire; (g) drilling and tapping the bone over the second guide wire; and (h) inserting the fusion implant over the second guide wire and into the sacroiliac joint.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.375
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15664608', '15828677', '14668982', '13826564', '14537327']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7620751790530785
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4731637364198309
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7331840347897537
- Mean Citation Score: 236.550676
- Max Citation Score: 240.90327
- Similarity Product: 179.03921073921916

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

Dataset: test