PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948817
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "263000"]

Abstract:
A laminar fixation clamp has a body that utilizes a clam-shell style pivot controlled by a set screw, to grasp and attach to a spine rod, while receiving a laminar fixation band that can loop around a lamina of a vertebra in order to hold the laminar fixation clamp onto the vertebra. One form comprises a two-piece structure while another form comprises a single-piece structure. In each case, an upper and lower clamping structure situated at a front of the laminar fixation clamp, is received over and onto the spine rod, while a laminar fixation band is received through clamp. The set screw controls the amount of pivoting and thus the clamping force exerted onto the spine rod.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of retaining a spine rod relative to a vertebra comprising:\n providing a laminar fixation implant having:\n a set screw having a head and an externally threaded shank extending from the head; and \n a body defining an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion and the lower portion pivotally coupled at a rear thereof, a channel in the lower portion extending from a front area thereof to a rear area thereof that is configured to receive a laminar fixation band, an upper spine rod reception area on an underside of an upper nose thereof opposite the rear, a lower spine rod reception area on an upperside of a lower nose thereof opposite the rear, an upper threaded bore in the upper portion for receipt of the set screw, a lower threaded bore in the lower portion for receipt of the set screw whereby rotation of the set screw causes the first and second portions to pivot and compress relative to each other, causing the first and second spine rod reception areas to grasp onto a spine rod; \n providing a laminar fixation band; clamping the laminar fixation implant onto a spine rod; threading the laminar fixation band through the laminar fixation implant; looping the laminar fixation band around a lamina of a vertebra; and tightening the laminar fixation band around the lamina.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92424
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15643400', '15010040', '13410213', '14024437', '11651721']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7877261780411221
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4701152639569789
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7559650866327079
- Mean Citation Score: 213.501588
- Max Citation Score: 244.74094
- Similarity Product: 189.13974404220696

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