PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106435
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["606", "055000"]

Abstract:
Provided are a telescoping, adjustable orthopedic strut for use in conjunction with an external bone fixation (EBF) device and an EBF device that employs the strut. The strut includes swivel hinges at each end, wherein each swivel hinge is lockable in any position within a one hundred eighty degree (180°) plane and has a three hundred degree (360°) angle of rotation with respect to an orthopedic plate of the EBF device; an outer sleeve; an inner sleeve configured to slide within the outer sleeve; wherein the inner sleeve and outer sleeve may be positioned and fixed with respect to each other to provide an acute adjustment of the length of the strut; a leadscrew threaded into the inner sleeve, wherein the lead screw can be either rotated or fixed in position to provide a fine adjustment of the length of the strut.

Claim (Index 10):
The external bone fixation (EBF) device of  claim 6 , further comprising a clamping washer, wherein the fixation bolt passes through the clamping washer and the outer sleeve and, when the fixation bolt is tightened, is compressed between the fixation bolt and the outer sleeve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9625
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15922577', '13896060', '13589624', '14880954', '13891382']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7229007331333143
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5011082625490171
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7007214860748846
- Mean Citation Score: 211.707438
- Max Citation Score: 236.64285
- Similarity Product: 126.08524731268288

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

Dataset: test