PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018904
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for joining members together using a self-drilling screw apparatus or stapling apparatus are disclosed. The screw apparatus includes a shell and first and second first screw members having tapered ends and threaded bodies that are disposed within the shell. A drive mechanism rotatably drives the first and second screw members from the shell in opposite directions and causes the screw members to embed themselves in the members to be joined. The screw apparatus can be used to join members such as bones, portions of the spinal column, vertebral bodies, wood, building materials, metals, masonry, or plastics. The stapling apparatus includes first and second lever arms rotatably joined together at a fulcrum, and the lever arms rotate in opposite directions. First and second cartridges are disposed at the ends of the lever arms. Each cartridge is capable of holding a staple including a bracket, a nail member and an alignment slot. When the ends of the lever arms are rotated towards each other the staples from the cartridges are interlocked. The staples can be also be used to join members such as bones, portions of the spinal column, or vertebral bodies.

Claim (Index 34):
An artificial intervertebral implant comprising:\n a fusion cage comprising a top wall, a bottom wall, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall, wherein the top wall, bottom wall, first sidewall, and second sidewall together define a first vertebral body facing surface and a second vertebral body facing surface opposite of the first vertebral body facing surface, wherein the fusion cage defines at least one bone material slot extending from the first vertebral body facing surface through the fusion cage to the second vertebral body facing surface; a first anchor having a first anchor body and a first tapered tip, wherein the first anchor body has a first plurality of outwardly-extending bone engagement ridges, wherein the first anchor body is curved along the first anchor body, wherein the first anchor is extendable from the fusion cage to a first anchored position with the first tapered tip and the first plurality of outwardly-extending bone engagement ridges extending out of the fusion cage past the first vertebral body facing surface; and a second anchor having a second anchor body and a second tapered tip, wherein the second anchor body has a second plurality of outwardly-extending bone engagement ridges, wherein the second anchor body is curved along the second anchor body, wherein the second anchor is extendable from the fusion cage to a second anchored position with the second tapered tip and the second plurality of outwardly-extending bone engagement ridges extending out of the fusion cage past the second vertebral body facing surface, wherein the top wall defines a plurality of tool engagement holes configured for receiving at least one tool that extends along an axis that is substantially perpendicular to the top wall of the fusion cage such that the tool can operably engage with the first and second anchors to extend the first and second anchors out of the fusion cage past the first and second vertebral body facing surfaces.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32609
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13093812', '15934622', '15934614', '11208644', '15944117']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8655296734251989
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5967025325223618
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8386469593349153
- Mean Citation Score: 595.3056799999998
- Max Citation Score: 625.98584
- Similarity Product: 539.7585853565598

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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