PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126357
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["606", "305000"]

Abstract:
An instrument for holding and inserting a bone anchor into a bone is provided, where the bone anchor includes a shank for anchoring in the bone and a head. The instrument includes a holding member for holding the head of the bone anchor and has a plurality of arms configured to at least partially encompass the head, where the arms include an inner surface forming a seat for the head. The instrument also includes a drive shaft for engaging the head of the bone anchor and defining a longitudinal axis of the instrument. The instrument further includes a displacement member configured to act on the holding member. The holding member can assume a first configuration in which it is configured to permit the head to enter the seat and a second configuration in which it is configured to hold the head in the seat.

Claim (Index 3):
The instrument of  claim 2 , wherein a region of a largest inner diameter of the spherical inner surface portion of the seat is situated between an edge of the seat closer to the first end of the holding member and an edge of the seat farther away from the first end of the holding member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51667
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14645307', '15208872', '15208847', '15623444', '15695335']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7927506127347893
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5330695886841017
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7667825103297206
- Mean Citation Score: 277.43137
- Max Citation Score: 413.09268
- Similarity Product: 379.4215418484664

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