PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918459
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "304000"]

Abstract:
An improved joint fusion screw for transiliac fixation has a screw head and extending therefrom an elongate hollow shaft. The hollow shaft has an externally threaded end portion extending to a tip end and a non-externally threaded shank portion having a plurality of window openings. At or near the tip end is a start of a thread with a bone cutting flute. The bone cutting flute has a cutting edge on a circumferential exterior of the threaded tip to cut bone and directs the cut bone internally into a bone receiving opening in the hollow shaft directly in front of the cutting flute. The cutting edge lies at the start of the thread extending radially above the bone receiving opening at least partially overhanging the opening configured to cut bone.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of transiliac fixation of  claim 2  wherein the screw has the aperture at the tip end and the driver cap and the method further comprises the steps of:\n inserting a guide wire to create a drill path; \n inserting a cannulated drill over the guide wire to pre-drill the hole; and \n inserting the screw onto the guide wire to direct the path for insertion into the bone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07692
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14856879', '14630748', '14739407', '13789944', '13092397']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7803967507812994
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5127677771849904
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7536338534216686
- Mean Citation Score: 237.128418
- Max Citation Score: 364.9279
- Similarity Product: 324.11583922314645

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

Dataset: test