PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975267
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
A spinal fusion system may include an interbody fusion cage, a fixation plate, and an implanter. The interbody fusion cage may include a proximal region, a distal region opposite the proximal region, a superior region, an inferior region opposite the superior region, and an open volume between the proximal and distal regions. The superior and inferior regions are located between the proximal and distal regions and are configured such that, when the interbody fusion cage is implanted in the disc space, the superior region contracts the inferior end plate and the inferior region contacts the superior end plate. The fixation plate is receivable in the open volume of the interbody fusion cage and includes a superior blade and an inferior blade. At least one of the blades includes a first opening defined therein. The fixation plate is displaceable between a non-deployed state and a deployed state.

Claim (Index 38):
A method for fusing a superior vertebra to an inferior vertebra, the method comprising:\n introducing a disc preparation device into a disc space defined by an inferior endplate of the superior vertebra and a superior endplate of the inferior vertebra, said disc preparation device comprising a body including a superior surface, an inferior surface and an interior opening extending through the superior surface and the inferior surface, and at least one cutting device moveably disposed in the opening of the body, such that the at least one cutting device can be moved in such a way as to extend at least one of superiorly above the superior surface of the body or inferiorly below the inferior surface of the body; moving said at least one cutting device to extend at least one of superiorly above the superior surface of the body or inferiorly below the inferior surface of the body to cut into at least one of said inferior endplate or said superior endplate; removing said disc preparation device from said from said disc space; introducing an interbody fusion cage comprising a superior surface, an inferior surface and an opening extending through said superior surface and said inferior surface, said interbody fusion cage comprising a deployable fixation plate supported within said cage, said fixation plate comprising at least one blade disposed in the opening of said cage in such a way as to extend at least one of superiorly above the superior surface of said cage or inferiorly below the inferior surface of said cage; and deploying said fixation plate to move said at least one blade into the inferior or superior endplate cut into by the at least one cutting device of said disc preparation device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75862
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14599250', '15454287', '15946874', '15947063', '15946910']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8408525222423036
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5775754011947607
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8145248101375493
- Mean Citation Score: 390.791926
- Max Citation Score: 527.8959
- Similarity Product: 460.6396124799013

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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