PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897428
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["623", "013140"]

Abstract:
A biocompatible, biodegradable surgical fastening device employs opposed engagement surfaces having receptacles and protrusions, in which the receptacles are responsive to the protrusions on the opposed engagement surface. The fastening device has a generally planar construction defining the engagement surface, such that each engagement surface has a proximate end for engaging the opposed engagement surface, and a distal end for attachment to an anatomical structure. The distal end of two devices each connect to anatomical structures to be joined, and the engagement surfaces joined to each other at the proximate end to complete the repair. The distal end of the engagement surface defines a flexible attachment portion having a lateral attachment width, the lateral width configured for securement to the anatomical structure across a nonlinear disposition of the lateral width. The flexible lateral width conforms around an irregular shape of an anatomical structure such as a tendon, ligament or bone.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 11  further comprising engaging a plurality of protrusions on one of the engagement surfaces and a plurality of receptacles on the opposed engagement surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21918
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12393452', '14957452', '12896857', '14604840', '15895896']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8010261702455636
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4791175682128236
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7688353100422896
- Mean Citation Score: 171.79819400000005
- Max Citation Score: 178.64815
- Similarity Product: 103.42995216596124

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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