PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018354
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
A self-drilling bone fusion screw apparatus is disclosed which includes at least first and second sliding boxes. A first screw member having a tapered end and a threaded body is disposed within the first sliding box, and a second screw member having a tapered end and a threaded body disposed within the second sliding box. An adjuster adjusts the height of the sliding boxes. The screw members are screwed into vertebral bodies in order to fuse the vertebral bodies together. A plurality of the self-drilling bone fusion screw apparatuses may be attached together and/or integrated via a plate or cage. Also disclosed is a cervical facet staple that includes a curved staple base and at least two prongs attached to the bottom surface of the curved staple base.

Claim (Index 11):
A spinal staple comprising:\n a staple base having a top surface, a bottom surface positioned opposite of the top surface, a first end, a second end positioned opposite of the first end, a first side between the first and second ends and between the top and bottom surfaces, and a second side between the first and second ends and between the top and bottom surfaces, wherein the top surface and the bottom surface are contoured as curved surfaces, wherein curvature of the top surface is at least partially concave and curvature of the bottom surface is at least partially convex; a first staple spike extending from the bottom surface of the staple base with a first proximal end integrally and rigidly attached to the staple base at the bottom surface of the staple base and with a first distal end extending distally away from the staple base, wherein the first distal end of the first staple spike has a first pointed tip configured to perforate spinal bone and wherein the first staple spike comprises first means to facilitate irreversible extraction; a second staple spike extending from the bottom surface of the staple base with a second proximal end integrally and rigidly attached to the staple base at the bottom surface of the staple base and with a second distal end extending distally away from the staple base, wherein the second distal end of the second staple spike has a second pointed tip configured to perforate spinal bone and wherein the second staple spike comprises second means to facilitate irreversible extraction, wherein a midline axis of the staple base extends from the first side to the second side and is equally spaced from the first end and the second end, wherein the first and second staple spikes are positioned on opposite sides of the midline axis with the first staple spike nearer the first end of the staple base and the second staple spike nearer the second end of the staple base, and wherein the spinal staple defines a threaded hole positioned along the midline axis that is accessible by a tool positioned on top of the spinal staple.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95652
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13210168', '13084543', '15944117', '15054926', '13210150']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8928578058202481
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6276777368304883
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8663397989212722
- Mean Citation Score: 780.768094
- Max Citation Score: 784.33997
- Similarity Product: 559.157119981345

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

Dataset: test