PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864163
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "258000"]

Abstract:
A growing rod for mounting between attachment mechanisms that are secured to anatomical structures of a patient having scoliosis. The growing rod includes an outer housing and an inner housing disposed within the outer housing. The inner housing includes a magnet assembly including a magnet having a first pole and a second pole and a gear reduction mechanism coupled to the magnet. A first rod is secured to the inner housing and a second rod is secured to the outer housing. The gear reduction mechanism reduces an output rotation of the magnet to rotate a driver that operates to move the inner housing along a longitudinal axis with respect to the outer housing.

Claim (Index 21):
A drive mechanism for a growing rod, comprising:\n an inner housing comprising a magnet assembly including a magnet having a first pole and a second pole and a gear reduction mechanism coupled to the magnet such that the magnet assembly and the gear reduction mechanism rotate freely within the inner housing, the gear reduction mechanism reducing an output rotation of the magnet; a bearing slidingly coupled to a circumferential outer surface of the inner housing; a driver rotationally coupled to the gear reduction mechanism, the driver coupled to the gear reduction mechanism such that a longitudinal spacing therebetween is fixed; an outer housing coupled to the inner housing by engagement of the driver with an inner surface of the outer housing, wherein the bearing engages the outer housing and the inner housing to prevent the inner housing from spinning freely within the outer housing, wherein rotation of the magnet assembly causes the gear reduction mechanism to rotate the driver to cause the inner housing to move along a longitudinal axis substantially without rotation relative to the outer housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22642
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13302187', '14628720', '15068836', '12957447', '14056441']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7490720058470787
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5117877234063324
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.725343577603004
- Mean Citation Score: 284.122288
- Max Citation Score: 355.3384
- Similarity Product: 331.2474994759558

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