PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923972
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["623", "013140"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a system and method of knee ligament balancing for knee replacement procedures. The disclosure provides a system of components to implant to achieve ligament balancing. In addition, instruments and methods are provided to achieve the desired balance of the ligaments before final fixation.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 16 , further including:\n forming a passage through the second bone element; and passing the second end portion of the elongate ligament support member through the passage from a ligament side of the second bone element to an anchor side of the second bone element, wherein the fixing an opposite, second end portion comprising fixing the second end portion on the anchor side of the second bone element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48571
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15670901', '14816939', '12413099', '12134713', '10727290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8425762278383574
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5538070898521379
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8136993140397354
- Mean Citation Score: 394.04316400000016
- Max Citation Score: 535.8106700000002
- Similarity Product: 365.6872079078234

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

Dataset: test