PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988219
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["606", "279000"]

Abstract:
According to some embodiments, a method of accessing an intervertebral space of a patient's spine in a minimally invasive manner compromises creating a passage from a posterior end of a pedicle of a vertebral member using a probe, advancing the probe through the pedicle and to a main body portion of the vertebral member, advancing the probe through a superior endplate of the vertebral member and into the intervertebral space and enlarging the passage using at least one tap to create an enlarged passage from a posterior of the pedicle to the intervertebral space. In some embodiments, the enlarged passage traverses at least three cortical layers of the vertebral member.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of fusing a first vertebra to a second vertebra, said second vertebra being immediately adjacent and above the first vertebra, the method comprising:\n creating a passage from a posterior end of a pedicle of the first vertebra through a superior endplate of the first vertebra, such that the passage extends into an intervertebral space located generally between the first and second vertebrae; advancing a first bone screw through the passage, such that a distal end of the first bone screw extends at least partially into the intervertebral space; inserting a second bone screw through the second vertebra; and attaching the first bone screw to the second bone screw.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20755
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14341587', '13422816', '14210033', '14616439', '15620633']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.901275864948059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5559685320347133
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8667451316567244
- Mean Citation Score: 404.019376
- Max Citation Score: 484.27417
- Similarity Product: 469.75819751090296

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test