PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901425
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["623", "013140"]

Abstract:
A connector for attaching a connective tissue to bone includes a sling for supporting and holding the connective tissue. A trap generally cooperates with the sling. The trap includes an anchor end and a sling end and a generally tubular section configured to decrease in diameter upon application of a longitudinal tensile force. The trap is dimensioned to fit within a tunnel through bone so that the connective tissue emerges from one end of the tunnel and so that an interference screw can be inserted into the tubular section at the anchor end of the trap at the other end of the tunnel whereby a pulling force exerted on the sling causes the generally tubular section of the trap to constrict more tightly about the interference screw to prevent slippage and to deter withdrawal of the trap from the tunnel.

Claim (Index 21):
A connector for attaching a connective tissue to bone comprising a trap having a generally hollow interior portion and having an anchor end positioned at one end of the trap and a tissue holder end positioned at the other end of the trap, the hollow interior portion configured to decrease in diameter upon application of a tensile force at the tissue holder end in a direction tending to pull the tissue holder end away from the anchor end when the anchor end is held in a position to resist the pull, the trap being dimensioned to fit and be contained within a tunnel through the bone so that an interference plug can be inserted into one end of the tunnel for positioning within at least a part of the hollow interior portion of the trap to frictionally engage and hold the anchor end of the trap in position between the interference plug and inner walls of the bone tunnel, and the trap having a tissue holder located in position at the tissue holder end of the trap for holding the connective tissue at the tissue holder end of the trap away from the anchor end so that when a tensile force is applied to the tissue holder in a direction away from the anchor end at least some part of the generally hollow interior portion at the anchor end will constrict more tightly about the interference plug to deter slippage from the plug.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11765
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15245873', '10651671', '13399125', '09781793', '12106652']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.848836751161669
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5585861058384045
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8198116866293426
- Mean Citation Score: 244.87909200000004
- Max Citation Score: 493.9638
- Similarity Product: 404.6808380722046

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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