PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901929
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["623", "013140"]

Abstract:
Tissue anchors, kits that include a tissue anchor, and methods of anchoring tissue to a bone are described. An example embodiment of a tissue anchor includes a screw and a stem releasably attached to the screw. The screw defines a first opening, a second opening, and a lumen that extends from the first opening to the second opening. A portion of the stem is sized and configured to be received within the lumen defined by the screw.

Claim (Index 19):
A tissue anchor comprising:\n a screw having a lengthwise axis, a screw main body, and a thread extending from the screw main body and away from the lengthwise axis, the screw main body having a screw proximal end, a screw distal end, a distal portion extending from the screw distal end toward the screw proximal end, a first outside diameter at the screw proximal end, and defining a first opening, a second opening, and a lumen extending from the first opening to the second opening, the outside diameter of the screw main body of the screw tapering along the distal portion of the screw main body, the thread having a thread proximal end, a thread distal end, a thread length extending from the thread proximal end to the thread distal end, a first portion extending from the thread proximal end toward the thread distal end, a second portion extending from the first portion of the thread to the thread distal end, a pitch, a height, a crest, a first side, a second side, and a thickness extending from the first side of the thread to the second side of the thread, the pitch being constant along the thread length, the height being constant along the first portion of the thread and tapering along the second portion of the thread, the crest being blunted along a portion of the thread, the thickness of the thread being constant along the first portion of the thread and tapering along the second portion of the thread; and a stem releasably attached to the screw and partially disposed within the lumen defined by the screw, the stem having a stem main body defining a first portion, a second portion, a first recess, a second recess, a first passageway, and a second passageway, the first portion of the stem having a first outside diameter, a first side, and a second side, the second portion of the stem having a second outside diameter that is greater than the first outside diameter, each of the first and second recesses defined on the first portion of the stem, the first recess positioned on the first side of the first portion and the second recess positioned on the second side of the first portion, each of the first and second passageways extending through the second portion and in communication with the lumen defined by the screw, the first passageway disposed adjacent to the first recess, the second passageway disposed adjacent to the second recess.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14198127', '15124344', '13328656', '09781793', '11916135']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7910845963050476
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4817262733678353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7601487640113264
- Mean Citation Score: 261.03087400000004
- Max Citation Score: 265.4995
- Similarity Product: 199.8439030538797

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

Dataset: test