PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885995
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["606", "084000"]

Abstract:
A detachable vertical cutter for insertion into a cylinder or tube is formed as a single unitary structure. The single blade has a pair of tool attachment end portions and a cutting blade extending in a loop between the attachment ends. The cutting blade is inclined vertically relative to a longitudinal axis of a cylinder or tube into which the attachment ends can slide into. The cutting blade has a cutting edge, a portion of which when extended free of the cylinder or tube will extend a distance greater than the tube outside diameter. The cutting edge when pushed inwardly and pulled outwardly between adjacent vertebrae scrapes and cuts disc material. When retracted the cutting blade deflects into the cylinder or tube for insertion or extraction into or from the disc space.

Claim (Index 1):
A detachable vertical cutter for insertion into a cylinder or tube comprises:\n a single blade having a pair of tool attachment end portions and a cutting blade extending in a loop between the attachment ends; and wherein the cutting blade is inclined vertically relative to a longitudinal axis of a cylinder or tube into which the attachment ends slide into, the cutting blade having a cutting edge, a portion of which when extended free of the cylinder or tube extends a distance above the tube outside diameter, the cutting edge cuts linearly relative to the longitudinal axis as the cutting blade is moved inwardly and outwardly and when positioned between adjacent vertebrae is configured to cut disc material by pushing inwardly and pulling outwardly relative to the disc as the cutting edge of the cutting blade scrapes and cuts the disc material parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder or tube, and the cutting blade when retracted deflects into the cylinder or tube for insertion or extraction into or from the disc space.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90411
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14448490', '11712241', '12367397', '10972077', '10241233']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8136888496441219
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5037663151387761
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7826965961935873
- Mean Citation Score: 216.19485
- Max Citation Score: 344.91473
- Similarity Product: 277.48570384283903

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

Dataset: test