PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15984294
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
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 16):
The method of  claim 15 , wherein a two-anchor parallel horizontal repair is completed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15852925', '15124344', '13077813', '14540634', '14754773']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8278372333385456
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5309322608877548
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7981467360934666
- Mean Citation Score: 352.09816199999995
- Max Citation Score: 461.3507
- Similarity Product: 280.2382470422268

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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