PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16132159
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
A method of using a robotic guidance system for performing surgery on a spine is provided. The method includes utilizing a computerized tomographic scan image of a location on a spinal column of a patient, such that the computerized tomographic scan image is connected to a computer and visible on a monitor connected to the computer. The method also includes attaching a coupling component to the spinal column of the patient, coupling a marker to the coupling component, and imaging, with a fluoroscope, the view of the spinal column of the patient, wherein the fluoroscope image is transmitted to the computer and visible on the monitor and the at marker is clearly visible in the fluoroscope image. The method also includes positioning a cannula, with a robotic mechanism, to a first position relative to a vertebra in the spinal column of the patient, drilling a passage through the cannula into bone of the vertebra in the spinal column of the patient, inserting a guidewire through the cannula into the passage in the bone of the vertebra in the spinal column of the patient, and positioning a screw into the bone of the vertebra in the spinal column of the patient.

Claim (Index 45):
The method of fastening at least first and second portions of body tissue together as set forth in  claim 42 , wherein said fastening comprises applying at least one fastener to the first and second portions of body tissue.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 83.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.25758
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13912730', '13888957', '10102413', '15218608', '15235221']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8845939520567271
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5025723648417616
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8463917933352305
- Mean Citation Score: 435.004028
- Max Citation Score: 445.8532
- Similarity Product: 318.4676154433489

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