PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973483
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "085000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to systems, methods, tools and surgical procedures that provide for improved, faster and/or more efficient methods for cleaning bone of soft tissue in preparation for use in bone grafting and surgery, including specific applications particularly useful in fusion procedures and/or other surgeries of the lumbar, cervical, and/or thoracic spine and/or other anatomical locations, desirably allowing for faster and complete healing.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of preparing graft bone surfaces during a surgical bone graft procedure, the method comprising the steps of:\n providing a rotary cutting tool comprising an elongated shaft and a cutting head including a plurality of substantially rigid outwardly extending spines arranged for rotary engagement with a tissue surface, the elongated shaft having a proximal end and a distal end and the cutting head mounted on the elongated shaft proximate to the distal end, at least one of the plurality of substantially rigid outwardly extending spines including a first cutting surface and a second cutting surface, the first and second cutting surfaces located proximate to a distal spine tip; causing the rotary cutting tool to rotate in a first direction; applying the rotary cutting tool to the tissue surface; and moving the rotary cutting tool along the tissue surface while the rotary cutting tool rotates in the first direction to engage the first cutting surface with a first portion of the tissue surface so as to remove the first portion of the tissue surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43137
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14059372', '11428213', '14514221', '11075552', '14668982']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7758054261849487
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4598865366795494
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7442135372344088
- Mean Citation Score: 171.46513999999996
- Max Citation Score: 179.68558000000004
- Similarity Product: 125.00043384181026

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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