PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895178
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
A method of delivering a fusion cage to an intervertebral disc space bounded by adjacent vertebral endplates, comprising the step of delivering the fusion cage into the disc space without contacting its teeth to the vertebral endplates during delivery, wherein a sheath is interposed between a cage surface and the endplates to prevent contact therebetween during delivery.

Claim (Index 1):
An assembly comprising:\n a) an intervertebral fusion cage having a leading end, a trailing end, an upper face and a lower face, and b) an inserter comprising a cannulated sheath having a plurality of sheath portions extending distally therefrom, wherein a first sheath portion has an inner portion bearing against the lower face of the cage, wherein a second sheath portion has an inner portion bearing against the upper face of the cage, and wherein the sheath contains bone graft, at least a first portion of the bone graft is located within the cage, and at least a second portion of the bone graft is located outside of the cage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53846
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12822739', '14623982', '15653586', '15147544', '15001339']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8605234442646715
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5462261461920191
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8290937144574063
- Mean Citation Score: 415.640884
- Max Citation Score: 449.2407
- Similarity Product: 425.86648007406586

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

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