PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15747935
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["600", "229000"]

Abstract:
A surgical instrument assembly includes a frame system, and a surgical tool engageable with the frame system. The frame system is adapted for providing a surgical tool attachment and articulation locus that is maintained during the course of a surgical procedure to direct a fixed and repeatable delivery path for introduction and manipulation of one or more surgical instruments and implants at a surgical site in or on the patient's anatomy. The delivery path can be substantially curvilinear along an arc that is defined by a radius of curvature and length defined by the surgical tool, and a predetermined range of articulation of the tool at the articulation locus.

Claim (Index 10):
A surgical instrument assembly according to  claim 1 , comprising a guidance instrument for selecting an incision site for access to the spine of a surgical subject, the guidance instrument comprising\n a support base formed of essentially radio translucent material and comprising crosshair-oriented position indicators that extend in superior to inferior and transecting lateral dimensions and are formed of radio opaque material; a vertically adjustable depth indicator that extends from an upper surface of the support base and is formed of essentially radio-translucent material, the depth indicator comprising\n a vertically translatable extender with graduated markings in conventional units of measure, an extender lock; \n a vertically adjustable and substantially linear pivot arm that extends on an axis that is parallel to the lateral dimension of the position indicators and is adjustable and lockable vertically and which is attached at a first end to the extender and pivots from a position that is parallel with the extender to a position that is perpendicular to the extender, the pivot arm comprising \n wherein, in use, the guidance instrument is positioned on the surgical subject and under AP fluoroscopy to confirm collinear alignment with the spine along the sagittal plane and lateral alignment with the target disc space along the transverse plane, and the vertical height of the pivot arm is selected to approximate centerline of the disc space and visualize with lateral fluoroscopy to confirm whereby the contact point of the arcuate pointer on an external surface of the subject's skin is selected as the incision site.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8254
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14791881', '13210938', '10720656', '12479445', '15288614']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4807358574613775
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4964052041381985
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4823027921290596
- Mean Citation Score: 219.043742
- Max Citation Score: 277.72513
- Similarity Product: 203.18553883504032

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

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