PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16417571
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "232000"]

Abstract:
A suture anchoring device for fixing a soft tissue to a bone tissue is disclosed that enables the exchange of sutures between anchors after implantation. The suture anchoring device may include a body that is inserted into the bone tissue, a suture exchange fitting situation within a passage formed within the body, and one or more pre-loaded sutures looped through the suture exchange fitting and projecting proximally from a proximal opening formed in the body. Surgical kits and surgical methods for performing various repair procedures using one or more suture anchoring device are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , comprising forming first and second bore holes in the bone and wherein inserting the first suture anchor comprises inserting the first suture anchor into the first bore hole and inserting the second suture anchor comprises inserting the second suture anchor into the second bore hole.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15984294', '15852925', '15124344', '13077813', '14540634']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7768459583703111
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5833632258894468
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7574976851222247
- Mean Citation Score: 396.600798
- Max Citation Score: 504.77835
- Similarity Product: 502.11238920907965

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

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