PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950146
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "263000"]

Abstract:
A laminar fixation system includes a laminar fixation implant and a laminar fixation implant tensioning tool for use with laminar fixation tape for retaining a spine rod relative to a vertebra of the spine. The laminar fixation implant has a hook at one end thereof that defines an arcuate pocket for holding a spine rod, a threaded angled bore with a set screw that contacts and fixes a spine rod received in the arcuate pocket, a passage extending through the hook for receiving laminar fixation tape, and a fixation plate disposed in a sidewall of the arcuate pocket of the hook and abutting the passage, whereby pressure exerted on the fixation plate by the spine rod presses against and fixes the laminar fixation tape in the passage relative to the laminar fixation implant.

Claim (Index 5):
A method of retaining a spine rod relative to a vertebra comprising:\n providing a laminar fixation system having:\n a laminar fixation implant having a rectangular body with a hook at one end that defines an arcuate pocket for holding a spine rod, a locking mechanism configured to affix the laminar fixation implant to a spine rod received in the arcuate pocket of the hook, a passage extending through the hook from a top of the hook to a lower side of the hook for receiving laminar fixation tape, and a fixation plate disposed in a sidewall of the arcuate pocket of the hook and abutting the passage, whereby pressure exerted on the fixation plate will press against and fix laminar fixation tape in the passage relative to the laminar fixation implant; and \n a laminar fixation implant tensioning tool having a tubular body, a movable carriage situated about the tubular body, the movable carriage having a clamp that is adapted to lock movement of laminar fixation tape and allow freedom of movement of laminar fixation tape received therein, and an actuator connected to the movable carriage that is adapted to control up and down movement of the carriage with respect to the tubular body, whereby laminar fixation tape retained by the clamp is tensioned by upward movement of the movable carriage and loosened by downward movement of the movable carriage; \n providing laminar fixation tape; threading the laminar fixation tape through the passage of the hook of the laminar fixation implant; threading the laminar fixation tape through the clamp of the movable carriage; looping the laminar fixation tape around a lamina of a vertebra; locking movement of the laminar fixation tape by the clamp; tensioning the laminar fixation tape by moving the carriage; and fixing the laminar fixation tape relative to the laminar fixation implant via the second locking mechanism of the laminar fixation implant through locking a spine rod in the arcuate pocket of the hook via the set screw.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27869
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15948817', '15643400', '15058582', '15683490', '11877160']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7844222141437772
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4820993438012915
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7541899271095286
- Mean Citation Score: 244.739762
- Max Citation Score: 281.6324
- Similarity Product: 218.85756951608656

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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