PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934634
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "279000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are minimally invasive systems and method for stabilizing the spine, while preserving a degree of spinal flexion and extension of the spine at the level of the stabilized vertebrae postoperatively. The systems and methods can include an expandable anchor and rod that span an intervertebral disc. The anchor can have interstices, and ends in two adjacent vertebral bodies. The system can also include a volume of bone cement media.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for stabilizing the spine, comprising:\n inserting an anchor into the interior of a first vertebral body, through an intervertebral disc, and into the interior of a second vertebral body adjacent the first vertebral body such that a distal end of the anchor is within the interior of the second vertebral body, a proximal end of the anchor is within the interior of the first vertebral body, and a central portion of the anchor spans the intervertebral disc, the anchor having a compressed configuration and an expanded configuration, wherein in the expanded configuration the proximal end and the distal end of the anchor have maximal expanded diameters at their widest portions of greater than the diameter of the central portion of the anchor, and wherein the distal end can be expanded without expanding the proximal end and the central portion and the proximal end can be expanded without expanding distal end and the central portion, the anchor being defined by an expandable frame forming an interior extending from the proximal end, through the central portion, to the distal end of the anchor and interstices within the frame along the axial length of the anchor; inserting a catheter through the interior of the anchor, the catheter comprising one or more expandable members positioned on or proximate to a distal end of the catheter, wherein the one or more expandable members are sized to radially expand the proximal end of the anchor and the distal end of the anchor without expanding the central portion of the anchor; expanding at least one of the one or more expandable members causing the distal end of the anchor to expand within the interior of the second vertebral body; expanding at least one of the one or more expandable members the proximal end of the anchor to expand within the interior of the first vertebral body; and flowing a volume of media into the distal end of the anchor within the interior of the second vertebral body, wherein the media flows through the interstices of the anchor outside the anchor and into the interior of the second vertebral body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45283
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15299227', '14789805', '14559071', '10430841', '10125771']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8330979227693469
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5908858633748522
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8088767168298975
- Mean Citation Score: 440.80253000000016
- Max Citation Score: 551.1257
- Similarity Product: 521.7579800932646

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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