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 25):
The connector of  claim 21  wherein the generally hollow portion of the trap includes a braided tubular section so that tensile force applied at the tissue holder causes the braided tubular section of the trap to decrease in inner diameter to grasp the interference plug more tightly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11765
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15245873', '10651671', '13399125', '09781793', '12106652']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8622842363033261
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5665931034533763
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8327151230183312
- Mean Citation Score: 244.87909200000004
- Max Citation Score: 493.9638
- Similarity Product: 435.0865874955297

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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