PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897369
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["623", "013140"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments described herein provide an improved tendon anchoring device and method for securing a muscle tendon to a bone. In particular, implementations described herein, the devices and methods are useful for anchoring a tendon to a bone in a patient's arm, including for example, anchoring a bicep tendon to bore formed in the targeted bone of the arm.

Claim (Index 64):
A method for coupling a tendon to a bone, the method comprising:\n placing a tendon over an opening of a tunnel in a bone, the tunnel comprising an opening and a wall circumscribing the opening; placing a tendon anchoring device over the opening and at least a portion of the tendon, the anchoring device comprising: a body comprising a concave side wall and a convex side wall extending between first and second ends of the body; a tool engagement surface at the first end of the body; a tendon engagement surface at the second end of the body; a plurality of anchor ribs projecting laterally from the convex side wall; and a plurality of support ribs projecting laterally from the concave side wall; aligning the tendon engagement surface with the tendon; and placing the anchoring device carrying the tendon into the tunnel through the opening, thereby causing the anchor ribs to engage the wall of the tunnel and the support ribs to support the tendon against the wall of the tunnel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69231
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14701799', '14292222', '14610609', '13269460', '15164307']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8085447329577505
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5025913271242088
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7779493923743964
- Mean Citation Score: 238.50502000000003
- Max Citation Score: 332.91058
- Similarity Product: 289.9616399533988

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

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