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 15):
The method of  claim 12 , wherein said trial device comprises a scoring element selectively movable from a first position to a second position for scoring an inferior endplate of said superior vertebra or for scoring a superior endplate of said inferior vertebra, and wherein said method includes the step of scoring one of said superior or inferior endplates with said scoring element.

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): 0.8345806556267898
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6054759742162052
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8116701874857314
- Mean Citation Score: 508.88817200000005
- Max Citation Score: 654.48083
- Similarity Product: 484.1428886799103

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

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