PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938139
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
A prosthesis for spinal surgery includes a spacer adapted to be secured into the bone and attached to one of a plurality of configuration plates. The configuration plates are interchangeable and each one is configured to utilize a different combination of bone screws, anchors or both. The prosthesis may further include a retaining mechanism to prevent bone screws and/or anchors from backing out.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of using of a kit for intervertebral disc repair, the method comprising:\n attaching one of a first plate or a second plate to a spacer having a hole for receiving a screw and a channel for receiving an anchor, wherein the first plate has a hole extension that aligns with the hole when the first plate is attached to the spacer, and the second plate has a channel extension that aligns with the channel when the second plate is attached to the spacer; inserting the spacer-plate configuration into the disc space; and inserting a screw into the hole and the hole extension of the first plate and into communication with an adjacent vertebra or inserting an anchor into the channel and the channel extension of the second plate and into communication with an adjacent vertebra.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.42553
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12679621', '11374658', '13901327', '15413778', '13333652']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7822311748503952
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4780943856992573
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7518174959352814
- Mean Citation Score: 235.415474
- Max Citation Score: 239.19437
- Similarity Product: 170.18441069675325

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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