PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937845
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
Anchoring devices for rachidian implants, implants, surgical instruments, and surgical systems and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, an anchor comprises a stiff plate with a longitudinal axis, configured for penetration of its anterior end into a vertebral surface while its posterior end remains engaged with the implant. An implant may include a locking mechanism for the anchor. An anchor may include an abutment configured to abut a complementary abutment of an implant. In some configurations, inserting an anchor in a passage of an implant may displace a locking mechanism, which may resile and lock the anchor in the implant with complementary abutments of the anchor and implant abutting.

Claim (Index 13):
A combination for treating a spine, the combination comprising:\n an anchor comprising\n an anterior end configured for penetration of a vertebral surface, \n a posterior end configured for impacting the anchor into a vertebra, \n a longitudinal axis extending between the anterior end and the posterior end, and \n a lock abutment surface disposed between the anterior end and the posterior end; \n a spinal implant comprising\n an access surface configured to be accessible with the implant implanted in a spine, \n a vertebral contact surface, \n a passage extending from the access surface to the vertebral contact surface defining an insertion axis for the anchor; and \n a lock comprising\n an anchor abutment surface disposable along the passage, with the anchor abutment surface configured to operatively mate with the lock abutment surface of the anchor; and with \n the anchor and lock together having an installed configuration in which the anchor is inserted in the passage with the anchor abutment surface of the lock mated with the lock abutment surface of the anchor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01667
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15115659', '14252852', '14638746', '15832101', '14726558']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7671490075471021
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6158512304594609
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.752019229838338
- Mean Citation Score: 437.221038
- Max Citation Score: 573.6482
- Similarity Product: 561.0663972296953

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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