PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126357
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["606", "305000"]

Abstract:
An instrument for holding and inserting a bone anchor into a bone is provided, where the bone anchor includes a shank for anchoring in the bone and a head. The instrument includes a holding member for holding the head of the bone anchor and has a plurality of arms configured to at least partially encompass the head, where the arms include an inner surface forming a seat for the head. The instrument also includes a drive shaft for engaging the head of the bone anchor and defining a longitudinal axis of the instrument. The instrument further includes a displacement member configured to act on the holding member. The holding member can assume a first configuration in which it is configured to permit the head to enter the seat and a second configuration in which it is configured to hold the head in the seat.

Claim (Index 21):
An instrument configured to hold a bone anchor comprising a shank for anchoring to a bone and a head, the instrument comprising:\n a holding member configured to hold the head of the bone anchor, the holding member comprising a plurality of arms configured to at least partially encompass the head of the bone anchor, wherein an inner surface of the arms forms a seat for the head; a drive shaft defining a longitudinal axis of the instrument, wherein the drive shaft is positionable at least partially through the holding member and comprises an engagement portion for engaging the head of the bone anchor; and a displacement member positionable around at least part of the holding member; wherein when the holding member, the drive shaft, and the displacement member are assembled to one another, the drive shaft directly engages both the holding member and the displacement member, and the displacement member is movable axially relative to the drive shaft and relative to the holding member from a first configuration wherein the arms of the holding member are movable radially outwardly to permit the head of the bone anchor to enter the seat, to a second configuration wherein the displacement member restricts the arms from moving radially outwardly to hold the head in the seat.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51667
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14645307', '15208872', '15208847', '15623444', '15695335']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7721214846437531
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5317169971985825
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.748081035899236
- Mean Citation Score: 277.43137
- Max Citation Score: 413.09268
- Similarity Product: 391.55326541532753

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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