PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16115726
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
A pivoting wedge expandable spinal implant. An upper portion and a lower portion are pivotally connected together. The implant, in a collapsed position, is inserted into a disc space. A driving screw engages and applies a force to a pushing portion, driving the pushing portion toward the implant's distal end. The pushing portion engages and drives a wedge toward the implant's distal end. The wedge pivots upward against an inner surface of the lower portion. The wedge continues to pivot along an inner surface of the upper portion, translating the force to the upper portion, pivoting and expanding the upper portion to an expanded position.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of inserting an expandable spinal implant into a disc space of a patient between an upper vertebral body and a lower vertebral body, the method comprising:\n providing an expandable spinal implant, the implant having a proximal end, an opposite distal end, an upper portion, a lower portion, a moveable portion, and a force application device, the upper portion and the lower portion being moveable between a collapsed position and an expanded position, the moveable portion including a wedge portion and being positioned between the upper portion and the lower portion, and the force application device including a distal end surface and being configured to move the wedge portion of the moveable portion toward or away from the distal end of the implant via contact of the distal end surface with the moveable portion; surgically preparing the disc space; inserting the implant, with the upper portion and the lower portion in the collapsed position, into the disc space; contacting the distal end surface of the force application device to the moveable portion; applying a force with the force application device to the wedge portion of the moveable portion via the contact of the distal end surface to the moveable portion; moving the wedge portion toward the distal end of the implant along a lower surface of the lower portion; and pivoting the wedge portion along a ramp portion of the lower surface of the lower portion toward at least a portion of an upper surface formed on the upper portion; contacting the wedge portion to the upper portion and moving the upper portion away from the lower portion; and moving the implant from the collapsed position to the expanded position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24528
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14987519', '15147668', '15009582', '15340770', '15818395']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7724434067794566
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5658793520086498
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.751787001302376
- Mean Citation Score: 371.738142
- Max Citation Score: 482.8496
- Similarity Product: 419.849892193985

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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