PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887854
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "279000"]

Abstract:
Described herein are devices and methods for fusion of adjacent vertebral bones using distractor platforms for exposure and resection of at least a portion of a facet joint, such as in performance of a TLiF procedure. In one embodiment, the distractor platform contains at least a first receptacle and/or extension adapted to couple to the implanted screw/bone marker, and the method includes advancing a threaded segment of a bone fastener assembly into the identified first pedicle of the first vertebral bone, the bone fastener assembly further comprises a second segment adapted to couple with a distraction platform, which is adapted to concurrently attach onto at least one tissue retention blade, and retain the tissue retention blade in the displaced position. Stabilization of a spinal segment is also provided by advancing a substantially concave orthopedic implant through an opening made in a posterior aspect of a disc space.

Claim (Index 41):
A method for stabilization of a spinal segment, the spinal segment comprising a first vertebral bone, a second vertebral bone adjacent to the first vertebral bone, and an intervertebral disc space disposed between the first vertebral bone and the second vertebral bone, the intervertebral disc space comprising an anterior surface and a posterior surface, the method comprising:\n creating a corridor within tissues of a subject utilizing a non-implantable tissue retractor, the corridor positioned outside of the spinal segment and extending between a skin surface of the subject and the spinal segment; approaching a posterior surface of the intervertebral disc space; creating an opening in a posterior aspect of an annulus fibrosus of the intervertebral disc space; advancing a first implant into the intervertebral disc space through the opening in the annulus fibrosus; and advancing a second implant into the intervertebral disc space through the opening in the annulus fibrosus; wherein the non-implantable tissue retractor is positioned outside of the intervertebral disc space during each of the acts of advancing the first implant into the intervertebral disc space and advancing the second implant into the intervertebral disc space; wherein a first body of the second implant comprises a first top surface and an opposing first bottom surface that are connected by a first side surface and an opposing second side surface, the first side surface comprising a concave segment that extends inwardly and towards the opposing second side surface of the second implant; and wherein, after the act of advancing of the second implant into the intervertebral disc space, the second implant is positioned within the intervertebral disc space with the concave segment of the first side surface oriented toward the posterior surface of the intervertebral disc space.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 134.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71429
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13875228', '14616439', '15620633', '15162468', '13357509']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9229790851762992
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5938036925605936
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8900615459147289
- Mean Citation Score: 545.6202999999998
- Max Citation Score: 638.2602
- Similarity Product: 516.4944890320302

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

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