PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934614
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "246000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for joining members together using a self-drilling screw apparatus or stapling apparatus are disclosed. The screw apparatus includes a worm drive screw, a spur gear and superior and inferior screws which turn simultaneously in a bi-directional manner. A rotating mechanism drives the first and second screw members in opposite directions and causes the screw members to embed themselves in the members to be joined. The screw apparatus can be used to join members such as bones, portions of the spinal column, vertebral bodies, wood, building materials, metals, masonry, or plastics. A device employing two screws (two-in-one) can be combined with a capping horizontal mini-plate. A device employing three screws can be combined in enclosures (three-in-one). The stapling apparatus includes grip handles, transmission linkages, a drive rod a fulcrum and a cylinder. The staple has superior and inferior segments with serrated interfaces, a teethed unidirectional locking mechanism and four facet piercing elements. The staples can be also be used to join members such as bones, portions of the spinal column, or vertebral bodies.

Claim (Index 21):
A bidirectional fixating intervertebral implant system, the system comprising:\n at least one implant body comprising polyethylene-ketol (PEEK) configured to act to reduce subsidence of a disc space between first and second vertebral bodies when implanted into the disc space, the implant body having a first vertebral body-facing surface having a first set of ridges and an opposing second vertebral body-facing surface having a second set of ridges configured for engaging the first and second vertebral bodies, wherein the first vertebral body-facing surface defines a first anchor opening and wherein the second vertebral body-facing surface defines a second anchor opening, wherein the implant body has a body top surface, a body bottom surface, and first and second body side surfaces that combine to define a body perimeter extending around the implant body between the first and second vertebral body-facing surfaces; a perimeter enclosure comprising titanium and extending around and connected to the body perimeter of the implant body, wherein the perimeter enclosure surrounds and covers at least part of the body top surface, the body bottom surface, and the first and second body side surfaces while exposing the first and second vertebral-body facing surfaces so as to allow the first and second vertebral body-facing surfaces to abut the first and second vertebral bodies when the implant system is implanted in the disc space, wherein the implant body and the plate are sized to fit within the disc space when the implant body and the plate are combined and implanted in the disc space, wherein the perimeter enclosure defines at least one tool hole extending through the perimeter enclosure to the top surface of the implant body; a first anchor sized and configured to extend through the first anchor opening from a position that is internal to the at least one implant body to a position that is external to the at least one implant body, wherein the first anchor has a first shaft portion sized and configured to extend through the first anchor opening and a first vertebral body engagement portion extending laterally outward from the first shaft portion in multiple directions to engage the first vertebral body when the implant system is positioned in the disc space; and a second anchor sized and configured to extend through the second anchor opening from a position that is internal to the at least one implant body to a position that is external to the at least one implant body, wherein the second anchor has a second shaft portion sized and configured to extend through the first anchor opening and a second vertebral body engagement portion extending laterally outward from the second shaft portion in multiple directions to engage the second vertebral body when the implant system is positioned in the disc space.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15896130', '11536815', '12868451', '14299711', '15934622']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8422551730266788
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6453015548854151
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8225598112125524
- Mean Citation Score: 601.23967
- Max Citation Score: 665.5465
- Similarity Product: 628.962740348518

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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