PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15892704
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["606", "059000"]

Abstract:
External fixation systems, and methods for immobilizing joints or fractured bones. An external fixation system may include one or more clamp assemblies connected to one or more rod assemblies at polyaxial joints. Each rod assembly may be length adjustable, and may include a one-way locking mechanism to provisionally lock the length of the rod assembly, and additional locking mechanisms to permanently lock the length of the rod assembly. The system may be deployed pre-assembled as a unit to immobilize a joint or fracture. Another external fixation system further includes a spanning member extending transverse to the rod assemblies. Two or more external fixation systems may be deployed in a stacked configuration on one set of bone pins to immobilize two joints and/or fractures. The systems may be provided in kits including guiding instrumentation, bone pins and pin clamping assemblies for connecting the bone pins to the external fixation systems.

Claim (Index 29):
A clamp assembly for external fixation of a limb, the clamp assembly comprising:\n a rod clamp configured to connect to a rod assembly, the rod clamp having a centerline; a main clamp body pivotally connected to the rod clamp, the main clamp body having a longitudinal axis, the main clamp body comprising a plurality of holes disposed along the longitudinal axis, each of the holes configured to receive a bone pin, and each of the holes being positioned successively further away from the centerline of the rod clamp; a sliding clamp connected to the main clamp body, the sliding clamp configured to slide along the longitudinal axis and to secure the bone pin in place, the sliding clamp comprising at least one aperture with at least one set of teeth configured to secure the at least one bone pin in place; and a fixation bolt coupled to the sliding clamp and configured to actuate the sliding clamp.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07792
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14668282', '14456407', '15073264', '13961729', '15185313']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7705754748069368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5380008385393653
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7473180111801796
- Mean Citation Score: 337.902428
- Max Citation Score: 427.84583
- Similarity Product: 347.27569649337715

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

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