PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934614
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "246000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for joining members together using a self-drilling screw apparatus or stapling apparatus are disclosed. The screw apparatus includes a worm drive screw, a spur gear and superior and inferior screws which turn simultaneously in a bi-directional manner. A rotating mechanism drives the first and second screw members in opposite directions and causes the screw members to embed themselves in the members to be joined. The screw apparatus can be used to join members such as bones, portions of the spinal column, vertebral bodies, wood, building materials, metals, masonry, or plastics. A device employing two screws (two-in-one) can be combined with a capping horizontal mini-plate. A device employing three screws can be combined in enclosures (three-in-one). The stapling apparatus includes grip handles, transmission linkages, a drive rod a fulcrum and a cylinder. The staple has superior and inferior segments with serrated interfaces, a teethed unidirectional locking mechanism and four facet piercing elements. The staples can be also be used to join members such as bones, portions of the spinal column, or vertebral bodies.

Claim (Index 38):
A method of operating the implant system of  claim 21 , the method comprising:\n inserting the implant body and the perimeter enclosure into the disc space between the first and second vertebral bodies, wherein the implant body is positioned in the perimeter enclosure while being inserted and wherein the first and second anchors do not extend out of the first and second anchor openings during insertion of the implant body and the perimeter enclosure into the disc space; extending the first anchor into the first vertebral body with the first vertebral body engagement portion cutting into and engaging the first vertebral body and with part of the first shaft portion retained in the implant body, wherein the first anchor is extended into the first vertebral body after the implant body and the perimeter enclosure are positioned in the disc space; and extending the second anchor into the second vertebral body with the second vertebral body engagement portion cutting into and engaging the second vertebral body and with part of the second shaft portion retained in the implant body, wherein the second anchor is extended into the second vertebral body after the implant body and the perimeter enclosure are positioned in the disc space.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15896130', '11536815', '12868451', '14299711', '15934622']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8504918705446696
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6049417653480185
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8259368600250044
- Mean Citation Score: 601.23967
- Max Citation Score: 665.5465
- Similarity Product: 503.2558073448837

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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