PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896130
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["606", "249000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for joining members together using a self-drilling screw apparatus or stapling apparatus are disclosed. The screw apparatus includes a worm drive screw, a spur gear and superior and inferior screws which turn simultaneously in a bi-directional manner. A rotating mechanism drives the first and second screw members in opposite directions and causes the screw members to embed themselves in the members to be joined. The screw apparatus can be used to join members such as bones, portions of the spinal column, vertebral bodies, wood, building materials, metals, masonry, or plastics. A device employing two screws (two-in-one) can be combined with a capping horizontal mini-plate. A device employing three screws can be combined in enclosures (three-in-one). The stapling apparatus includes grip handles, transmission linkages, a drive rod a fulcrum and a cylinder. The staple has superior and inferior segments with serrated interfaces, a teethed unidirectional locking mechanism and four facet piercing elements. The staples can be also be used to join members such as bones, portions of the spinal column, or vertebral bodies.

Claim (Index 34):
A bidirectional fixating intervertebral implant system, the system comprising:\n at least one implant body made of polyethylene-ketol (PEEK) configured to act to reduce subsidence of a disc space between first and second vertebral bodies when implanted into the disc space, the implant body having a first vertebral body-facing surface and an opposing second vertebral body-facing surface configured for engaging the first and second vertebral bodies, having a plate-facing surface, and having side surfaces extending between the first and second vertebral body-facing surfaces; a plate having a top surface and a body-facing surface, wherein the plate is configured to engage with the implant body with the body-facing surface of the plate abutting against the plate-facing surface of the implant body, wherein the plate comprise a plurality of plate holes aligned with a plurality of body holes of the implant body, wherein the body-facing surface of the plate has a first portion abutting the implant body and a second portion abutting the implant body, wherein the first portion of the body-facing surface of the plate is positioned opposite the top surface of the plate and the second portion of the body-facing surface of the plate is angled with respect to the first portion of the body-facing surface of the plate so as to abut a different portion of the implant body, wherein both the implant body and the plate are sized to fit within the disc space when the implant body and the plate are combined and implanted in the disc space; and a plurality of bone-piercing screws extendable from the system bidirectionally such that a first of the bone-piercing screws extends in a first direction so as to pierce and engage with the first vertebral body when implanted in the disc space and a second of the bone-piercing screws extends in a second direction different than the first direction so as to pierce and engage with the second vertebral body when implanted in the disc space.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12868451', '14299711', '11536815', '13093812', '11208644']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8900041779020776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5946941510907396
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8604731752209439
- Mean Citation Score: 593.005462
- Max Citation Score: 620.15985
- Similarity Product: 462.5791759105504

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

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