PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970747
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 4):
The bone plate of  claim 1 , further comprising at least one fastener, the fastener being at least partially threaded and having a head portion and a shaft portion, wherein the at least one opening is adapted to receive the at least one fastener, and wherein the plurality of first and second fins are deflectable relative to the head portion of the at least one fastener so that when the at least one fastener is inserted into the at least one opening, the at least one fastener is retained at any one of a plurality of angles relative to the at least one opening.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22034
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15970682', '15970732', '14605651', '11996795', '12069331']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7753318948596525
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4719423031204479
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7449929356857321
- Mean Citation Score: 237.940714
- Max Citation Score: 276.65814
- Similarity Product: 249.3570641505612

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

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