PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972454
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "08600A"]

Abstract:
A tool set for implanting a rod in a human spine in conjunction with bone screws includes a pair of end guide tools that receive opposite ends of the rod in channels and under manipulation by a surgeon facilitate transport of the rod toward the bone screws attached to the guide tools. Each end guide tool includes a laterally extending, rigid, rod holding structure located near a bottom surface thereof. Intermediate guide tools having pass-through slots are utilized to guide the rod to the bone screws at intermediate locations. For bone screw implantation, the end guide tools and intermediate guide tools are assembled with a driver. The driver is coaxial with the respective guide tool and rotatingly mateable thereto. The driver includes a stem and a nut-type fastener, the stem receivable in the guide tool. The fastener allows for rotation of the bone screw without rotating the attached guide tool. For reducing a rod into the bone screw, a rod pusher is deployed that is coaxial with a respective guide tool and includes an outer sleeve that abuts the rod as the sleeve is translated along the guide tool and toward the bone screw. A method utilizing the tool set allows a surgeon to percutaneously implant the bone screws and the rod in the patient.

Claim (Index 21):
A tool set for implanting a rod in a patient using at least one spinal implant, the spinal implant including engagement features having upwardly projecting inner recesses, the tool set comprising:\n a first end guide tool; a second end guide tool; and at least one intermediate guide tool, each of the first end guide tool, the second end guide tool and the at least one intermediate guide tool comprising:\n an elongate body; and \n a spinal implant engaging structure near a bottom of the elongate body comprising a first projection and a second projection opposed to the first projection, each of the first projection and the second projection including an upwardly projecting lip sized and shaped to be received in the upwardly projecting inner recesses of the engagement feature of the spinal implant.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43617
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14968623', '11541321', '10996289', '13507471', '14041552']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.929270454065765
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5736650779533845
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.893709916454527
- Mean Citation Score: 520.7696520000002
- Max Citation Score: 550.4234
- Similarity Product: 490.3905553290488

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

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