PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16165259
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["606", "232000"]

Abstract:
Described herein is a simplified placement system and method for a tissue graft anchor by which a surgeon may introduce one or more sutures into a socket in a boney tissue, apply a precise amount of tension to the sutures to advance a soft tissue graft to a desired location, and then advance the anchor into the socket, preferably while maintaining the requisite pre-determined suture tension and without introducing spin to the suture. Alternate embodiments of the anchor placement system and method of the present invention may forego tensioned sutures in favor of direct engagement with the soft tissue graft, whereby an end or a portion of the graft is trapped between an outer surface of the anchor and the boney surface of the wall of the socket such that friction force between the inserted portions of graft and socket maintains the position of graft relative to socket and bone. In either case, particularly preferred embodiments allow for the one-handed operation. To that end, embodiments in which relative axial movement between the inner tensioning device and outer driver device is optionally physically constrained, for example by means of cooperating and/or compressive elements disposed in the respective hub and handle portions, are described herein.

Claim (Index 5):
The implant placement system of  claim 4 , wherein said one or more slidable control element extend through a lateral wall of said proximal handle portion and are transversely oriented to the longitudinal axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.99074
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15256838', '15698048', '15256815', '15012060', '15429527']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8888899249688383
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.7167007911980271
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8716710115917572
- Mean Citation Score: 797.944492
- Max Citation Score: 817.9354
- Similarity Product: 801.9411831521512

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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