PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16165259
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["606", "232000"]

Abstract:
Described herein is a simplified placement system and method for a tissue graft anchor by which a surgeon may introduce one or more sutures into a socket in a boney tissue, apply a precise amount of tension to the sutures to advance a soft tissue graft to a desired location, and then advance the anchor into the socket, preferably while maintaining the requisite pre-determined suture tension and without introducing spin to the suture. Alternate embodiments of the anchor placement system and method of the present invention may forego tensioned sutures in favor of direct engagement with the soft tissue graft, whereby an end or a portion of the graft is trapped between an outer surface of the anchor and the boney surface of the wall of the socket such that friction force between the inserted portions of graft and socket maintains the position of graft relative to socket and bone. In either case, particularly preferred embodiments allow for the one-handed operation. To that end, embodiments in which relative axial movement between the inner tensioning device and outer driver device is optionally physically constrained, for example by means of cooperating and/or compressive elements disposed in the respective hub and handle portions, are described herein.

Claim (Index 14):
A method for affixing a soft tissue graft to a target boney surface, the method comprising the steps of:\n a. providing the implant placement system of  claim 1  with the proximal end of said driver device handle portion engaged to said insertion device and the axial control assembly in said first constrained configuration, whereby relative axial movement between said driver device and said insertion device is precluded; b. positioning an anchoring implant to the distal end of said driver device; c. engaging at least a portion of a soft tissue graft with said rigid distal portion of said elongate insertion device; d. inserting the distal end of the insertion device having said portion of said soft tissue graft engaged therewith into a suitably configured socket disposed in said target boney surface; e. shifting said axial control assembly to said second free configuration; and f. distally advancing said driver device so as to drive the implant in the socket, whereby said implant traps serves to anchor said soft tissue graft to said target boney surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.99074
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15256838', '15698048', '15256815', '15012060', '15429527']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8795105397756636
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6988423485264387
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8614437206507412
- Mean Citation Score: 797.944492
- Max Citation Score: 817.9354
- Similarity Product: 756.400801568067

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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