PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947063
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
A system for fusing together opposing vertebra of a spine that defines a disc space therebetween. The system comprises a disc preparation instrument and an inserter assembly for use in the interbody fusion procedure. Disc preparation instrument comprises an elongate handle supporting a trial device at one end thereof. Inserter assembly comprises an elongate inserter supporting at one end thereof an interbody cage implant for insertion into the disc space. Disc preparation instrument provides a scoring element that scribes vertebral endplates at an appropriate scored location for anchor blades on the cage implant to engage the vertebral bodies. Inserter is used to introduce cage implant with anchor blades into the disc space to an appropriate depth so that the blades will be precisely positioned at the scored location created by the scoring element for penetration into the vertebral endplates.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein said movable anchor plate comprises an upper and a lower deployable anchor blade, each having a penetration tip, and wherein each endplate of said inferior and superior vertebral bodies is scored to have a respective scored location, the tip of said upper blade penetrating the inferior endplate of said superior vertebra through said scored location, and the tip of said lower blade penetrating the superior endplate of said inferior endplate through said scored location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9863
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15454287', '15946910', '15946874', '14599250', '14744300']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8325314726293032
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6149877029654535
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8107770956629182
- Mean Citation Score: 508.88817200000005
- Max Citation Score: 654.48083
- Similarity Product: 513.9501530004942

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

Dataset: test