PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947063
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
A system for fusing together opposing vertebra of a spine that defines a disc space therebetween. The system comprises a disc preparation instrument and an inserter assembly for use in the interbody fusion procedure. Disc preparation instrument comprises an elongate handle supporting a trial device at one end thereof. Inserter assembly comprises an elongate inserter supporting at one end thereof an interbody cage implant for insertion into the disc space. Disc preparation instrument provides a scoring element that scribes vertebral endplates at an appropriate scored location for anchor blades on the cage implant to engage the vertebral bodies. Inserter is used to introduce cage implant with anchor blades into the disc space to an appropriate depth so that the blades will be precisely positioned at the scored location created by the scoring element for penetration into the vertebral endplates.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for fusing together a superior vertebra and an inferior vertebra, the superior vertebra including an inferior endplate and a vertebral body, said vertebral body of said superior vertebra having an exterior surface, the inferior vertebra including a superior endplate and a vertebral body, said vertebral body of said inferior vertebra having an exterior surface, the superior and inferior endplates defining a disc space therebetween, the method comprising the steps of:\n scoring the endplate of one of said inferior or said superior endplates to form a scored location at a distance from an exterior surface of one of said vertebral bodies; inserting a cage implant into said disc space, said cage implant including a cage supporting a movable anchor plate having a deployable anchor blade; using said distance, disposing said cage implant in said disc space such that said blade is aligned with said scored location; and deploying said anchor plate to cause said blade to penetrate said endplate through said scored location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9863
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15454287', '15946910', '15946874', '14599250', '14744300']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8146399251343426
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6155981285626709
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7947357454771754
- Mean Citation Score: 508.88817200000005
- Max Citation Score: 654.48083
- Similarity Product: 522.723055781089

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

Dataset: test