PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893958
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["623", "013120"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods and devices for securing soft tissue to a rigid material such as bone. A tissue anchoring device is described that comprises an anchor body and a spreader such that tissue may be captured or compressed between outside surfaces on the anchor and inside surfaces of a bone tunnel to secure the tissue within the tunnel. Methods are described that enable use of the bone anchoring device to secure a tissue graft into the tibial and femoral bones during anterior cruciate ligament (“ACL”) reconstruction.

Claim (Index 8):
The anchor of  claim 7 , wherein the hollow cylinder comprises a groove on an inside surface configured to receive the protruding ridge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51613
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14774663', '13269460', '14727410', '14111523', '12903187']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8275739319268419
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5539298326797059
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8002095220021284
- Mean Citation Score: 376.47228400000006
- Max Citation Score: 510.34668
- Similarity Product: 357.6243070988632

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

Dataset: test