PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16026220
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["606", "265000"]

Abstract:
Stand alone fusion cage assemblies that can be secured to the adjacent vertebral bodies via an in-line approach that is substantially perpendicular to the anterior wall of the stand alone cage (or substantially parallel to the cage insertion direction).

Claim (Index 1):
A method of treating a spine, comprising the steps of:\n i) inserting into a disc space an intervertebral fusion device having an anterior wall, a posterior wall, and first and second side walls connecting the anterior and posterior walls, an upper bearing surface and a lower bearing surface, the anterior wall having a height and an anterior surface, and a first threaded throughhole extending into the anterior wall from the anterior surface, ii) disposing into the first threaded throughole a fixation device comprising a proximal head and an intermediate flexible bellows having a helical threadform, wherein the helical threadform threadably mates with the first threaded throughhole.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.3125
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15402926', '14712135', '13235106', '14980839', '13413264']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7878091937969791
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4982434434610348
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7588526187633847
- Mean Citation Score: 220.58932400000003
- Max Citation Score: 342.58722
- Similarity Product: 318.9129243884039

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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