PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029856
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["606", "246000"]

Abstract:
An anterior cervical plate system is provided. The plate is configured to receive bone screws for attachment to and immobilization of adjacent vertebrae of the spine. The system includes a lock configured to prevent the bone screws from backing out of the plate. The lock includes at least one blocking surface that is movable between a blocked configuration preventing the bone screw from backing out and an unblocked configuration allowing passage of the bone screw. The lock achieves a blocked position in a rotation of less than 90 degrees while maintaining or increasing a low-profile.

Claim (Index 16):
The bone plate system of  claim 15  wherein at least one lock includes one or more second scallop extending between the top surface and the bottom surface of the lock; the second scallop being sized and configured to receive a setting pin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69492
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15294530', '14453458', '13185641', '14158995', '14159024']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8270837889276877
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5298156041374511
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7973569704486642
- Mean Citation Score: 346.43582200000014
- Max Citation Score: 417.5206
- Similarity Product: 343.1795219124913

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