PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970682
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "289000"]

Abstract:
A variable angle locking implant includes a bone plate having a lower surface, an upper surface, and at least one opening extending from the lower surface to the upper surface along an axis. The opening has a plurality of fins oriented along a plane. The axis is non-perpendicular to a tangent of a projection of the lower surface across the opening, the tangent defined at the intersection between the axis and the projected lower surface, and/or the plane is non-parallel to the tangent. The implant includes at least one fastener, and the plurality of fins are deflectable relative to a head portion of the fastener such that the fastener can be inserted and retained at any one of a plurality of angles.

Claim (Index 1):
A variable angle locking implant comprising:\n a bone plate having a lower surface;\n an upper surface; and \n at least one opening extending from the lower surface to the upper surface along an axis, the opening having an inner surface with a plurality of upper fins and a plurality of lower fins, wherein the plurality of upper fins are positioned closer to the upper surface of the bone plate and the plurality of lower fins are positioned closer to the lower surface of the bone plate; and \n wherein at least one of the plurality of upper fins and the plurality of lower fins include a concave portion for cooperating with a head of a bone fastener.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22034
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15970732', '15970747', '11996795', '14605651', '15970760']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8031083403208177
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5295545693979113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.775752963228527
- Mean Citation Score: 257.80332400000003
- Max Citation Score: 306.0424799999999
- Similarity Product: 264.0781879323863

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

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