PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "279000"]

Abstract:
Method and apparatus for performing medial-to-lateral sacroiliac fusion. An aiming guide is used to place a guide wire into a sacroiliac joint to facilitate driving a fusion implant into the joint.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of fusing a sacroiliac joint together comprising the steps of:\n (a) inserting a first screw into a sacrum; (b) inserting a first guide wire into the first screw; (c) inserting a first leg of an aiming guide over the first guide wire; (d) inserting a second guide wire through a second leg of the aiming guide; (e) removing the aiming guide; (f) inserting a drill over the second guide wire; (g) drilling the bone; and (h) inserting the fusion implant over the second guide wire and into the sacroiliac joint.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.375
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15664608', '15828677', '14668982', '13826564', '14537327']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7631269975661148
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4668168187374232
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7334959796832456
- Mean Citation Score: 236.550676
- Max Citation Score: 240.90327
- Similarity Product: 194.1161984182012

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