PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15747935
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["600", "229000"]

Abstract:
A surgical instrument assembly includes a frame system, and a surgical tool engageable with the frame system. The frame system is adapted for providing a surgical tool attachment and articulation locus that is maintained during the course of a surgical procedure to direct a fixed and repeatable delivery path for introduction and manipulation of one or more surgical instruments and implants at a surgical site in or on the patient's anatomy. The delivery path can be substantially curvilinear along an arc that is defined by a radius of curvature and length defined by the surgical tool, and a predetermined range of articulation of the tool at the articulation locus.

Claim (Index 16):
A surgical instrument assembly according to  claim 15 , wherein the modular surgical retractor comprises one or more of the features selected from the group consisting of:\n the retractor body is substantially curvilinear along its longitudinal axis and has a radius of curvature from about 5 to 50 cm; the distal end of one or both the retractor body and retractor hood is contoured and wherein the contour describes a concave arc that transects the retractor's longitudinal axis and has a radius of curvature from about 0.5 cm to 10 cm, and wherein the contour is bounded by bosses; the retractor hood is rectilinear along its longitudinal axis, and is either rectilinear or bowed around its longitudinal axis along at least a portion of its length; the retractor body comprises two opposing sidewalls bounding the floor along at least part of the length of the floor, the floor and sidewalls extending along the longitudinal axis and defining a chute with an open top, wherein the retractor body sidewalls are selected from essentially planar and bowed; and, at least one of the retractor and the hood comprises at least one tissue fixation member, comprising: a retractor securement element and a tissue securement element, the retractor securement element securable to one or both of the retractor body and retractor hood, and the tissue securement element is securable to a target tissue in the surgical field and selected from a screw, a pin, a wire, an awl, and a tang.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8254
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14791881', '13210938', '10720656', '12479445', '15288614']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4815192388238755
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4922827229439113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4825955872358791
- Mean Citation Score: 219.043742
- Max Citation Score: 277.72513
- Similarity Product: 218.83418913806915

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

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