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 62):
A method for stabilization of a segment of a spinal column, the 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 being positioned outside of the segment of the spinal column and extending between a skin surface of the subject and the spinal segment; removing a segment of a facet joint that couples the first vertebral bone and the second vertebral bone; creating an opening in a posterior aspect of an annulus fibrosus of the intervertebral disc space, the opening in the annulus fibrosus being ipsilateral to the facet joint; positioning a leading segment of a first implant at the opening in the posterior aspect of the annulus fibrosus; and advancing a remaining segment of the first implant into the intervertebral disc space along a curvilinear trajectory formed within an axial plane of the intervertebral disc space, the curvilinear trajectory comprising an arc centered about a central axis, the central axis extended along a direction of a longitudinal axis of the spinal column; wherein a body of the first implant comprises a top surface and an opposing bottom surface that are connected by a first side surface and an opposing second side surface, the first side surface comprising a convex segment that extends outwardly and away from the opposing second side surface of the first implant; and wherein the central axis of the curvilinear trajectory is positioned outside of the body of the first implant during the act of advancing the first implant into 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): 0.9225544829001388
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5976597468641364
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8900650092965386
- Mean Citation Score: 545.6202999999998
- Max Citation Score: 638.2602
- Similarity Product: 528.8409766011

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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