PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934634
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "279000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are minimally invasive systems and method for stabilizing the spine, while preserving a degree of spinal flexion and extension of the spine at the level of the stabilized vertebrae postoperatively. The systems and methods can include an expandable anchor and rod that span an intervertebral disc. The anchor can have interstices, and ends in two adjacent vertebral bodies. The system can also include a volume of bone cement media.

Claim (Index 16):
A system for stabilizing the spine, comprising:\n an anchor having a proximal end, a distal end, and a central portion, the anchor having a compressed configuration and an expanded configuration, wherein in the expanded configuration the proximal end and the distal end of the anchor have maximal expanded diameters at their widest portions of greater than the diameter of the central portion of the anchor, wherein the anchor is sized and configured such that the proximal end of the anchor can reside within the interior of a first vertebrae, the distal end of the anchor can reside within the interior of a second vertebrae adjacent the first vertebrae, and the central portion of the anchor spans an intervertebral disc between the first vertebrae and the second vertebrae, and wherein the distal end can be expanded without expanding the proximal end and the central portion and the proximal end can be expanded without expanding distal end and the central portion, the anchor being defined by an expandable frame forming an interior extending from the proximal end, through the central portion, to the distal end of the anchor and interstices within the frame along the axial length of the anchor; a catheter configured to be inserted through the interior of the anchor, the catheter comprising one or more expandable members positioned on or proximate to a distal end of the catheter, wherein the one or more expandable members are sized to radially expand the proximal end of the anchor and the distal end of the anchor without expanding the central portion of the anchor; wherein the interior of the anchor is configured to receive a rod for stabilizing the spine; and wherein the anchor is configured such that when the distal end of the anchor is inserted into the interior of the second vertebrae and a volume of media is injected into the distal end of the anchor, the volume of media can flow through the interstices of the anchor outside the anchor and into the interior of the second vertebrae.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45283
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15299227', '14789805', '14559071', '10430841', '10125771']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8316796628996326
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5970902593474902
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8082207225444183
- Mean Citation Score: 440.80253000000016
- Max Citation Score: 551.1257
- Similarity Product: 547.2170842073381

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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