PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["606", "08600A"]

Abstract:
A delivery instrument for placing an interbody implant into an intervertebral space of a patient comprises a plurality of elongated plates disposed adjacent one another. Each elongated plate has a proximal portion and a distal portion. The distal portion is sized and shaped to fit into the intervertebral space, and is configured to engage a vertebral body in the intervertebral space. An expandable member is coupled to the plurality of elongated plates so as to form an enclosed tube that is sized and shaped to receive the interbody implant. The expandable member allows for translation of the plurality of elongated plates relative to one another as the interbody implant passes through the tube.

Claim (Index 31):
A method for delivering an interbody implant into an intervertebral space between adjacent vertebral bodies of a patient, said method comprising:\n providing a delivery instrument having a first and second elongated plate forming a channel therebetween and an expandable member coupled thereto; advancing the interbody implant along the channel using a pusher element; stretching the expandable member, wherein the expandable member is disposed over the first and second elongated plates; moving the first and second elongated plates relative to one another as the interbody implant moves through the channel; disposing the interbody implant into the intervertebral space; rotating the interbody implant within the intervertebral space using the pusher element; and returning the first and second elongated plates to an unbiased configuration after the interbody implant has been ejected therefrom.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01695
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15206179', '14322702', '13072511', '13834782', '13784224']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8023609986126283
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5402626400094449
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.77615116275231
- Mean Citation Score: 311.7713740000001
- Max Citation Score: 439.8094
- Similarity Product: 400.7512524158239

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

Dataset: test