PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16011059
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["606", "232000"]

Abstract:
Knotless surgical constructs and methods of tissue repairs. A surgical construct can offer both repair and shuttling capabilities to allow for a single pass to load multiple sutures at once. A surgical construct is in the form of a flat suture tape provided with reinforced perforations and/or shuttling loops that can pass or shuttle multiple repair sutures while making a single pass through or around soft tissue.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of tissue fixation comprising:\n securing a suture construct in tissue, the suture construct comprising a middle region comprising a flat suture tape, two tail regions fixedly attached to and extending from opposite ends of the middle region, wherein the tail regions are structured differently from the middle region, and\u2014at least one reinforced perforation that defines a shuttling loop through the middle region; and passing at least one flexible strand through the tissue; and threading the at least one flexible strand through the shuttling loop of the suture construct.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.42857
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14831511', '15883771', '15602846', '14989451', '14198102']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7984478439342789
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4900494239651432
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7676080019373653
- Mean Citation Score: 289.2013740000001
- Max Citation Score: 307.72974
- Similarity Product: 240.46437357854603

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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