PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862257
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["600", "219000"]

Abstract:
The invention now summarized here is directed toward a surgical device that enables utilization of the lateral approach to the spine with the ability to retract tissue in an anterior-to-posterior direction. The invention also incorporates a surgical method for utilization of the above-mentioned surgical device, embodiments of which incorporate steps for approaching the anterior portion of the disc space, retracting soft tissue in a generally posterior direction, removing disc material, placing a bone graft and removing the associated instrumentation.

Claim (Index 8):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein at least one retractor blade incorporates a pin channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51786
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12623016', '12636860', '13756951', '12635869', '13954550']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6150850876674651
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.535757734812556
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6071523523819742
- Mean Citation Score: 412.741528
- Max Citation Score: 415.4685
- Similarity Product: 312.4811851465702

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

Dataset: test