PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964561
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "202000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming an access opening through a psoas muscle to a patient's spine includes laterally inserting a stimulating dilator into the psoas muscle. The stimulating dilator has a stimulation channel formed in an outer surface thereof. An electrical pulse is transmitted into the stimulating dilator to locate a positon of a nerve in the patient's psoas muscle. The stimulating dilator is laterally inserted through the psoas muscle and toward the patient's spine in a way that avoids the nerve. A stimulating probe is inserted into the stimulation channel along the outer surface of the stimulating dilator while transmitting an electrical pulse into the stimulating probe to verify the position of the nerve.

Claim (Index 5):
A method of forming an access opening through a psoas muscle to a patient's spine, comprising:\n laterally inserting a stimulating dilator into the psoas muscle, the stimulating dilator having a stimulation channel formed in an outer surface thereof along the entirety of the length of the stimulating dilator; transmitting an electrical pulse into the stimulating dilator to locate a position of a nerve in the patient's psoas muscle; laterally inserting the stimulating dilator through the psoas muscle and toward the patient's spine in a way that avoids the nerve; and inserting a stimulating probe into the stimulation channel along the outer surface of the stimulating dilator while transmitting an electrical pulse into the stimulating probe to verify the position of the nerve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34615
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15202738', '12681671', '15680433', '14147345', '14355707']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5272186726990427
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.623096168199051
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5368064222490435
- Mean Citation Score: 413.38202600000005
- Max Citation Score: 534.55804
- Similarity Product: 522.1479268303442

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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