PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961151
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "254000"]

Abstract:
An orthopedic implant system is disclosed for use in correcting or reducing the progression of scoliosis. The orthopedic implant system can be inserted laterally or posteriorly and comprises an elongated flexible member secured to a user's spinal column via a plurality of vertebral body screws. Typically, the height of the elongated flexible member is significantly greater than the width, creating a flattened cross-sectional aspect. The vertebral body screws comprise a screw base and a screw head with a slot sized to accept an insert. Typically, the elongated flexible member is positioned within the slot via the insert, and is allowed to slide within the screw head as needed, as the user moves. However, at the apex of the user's scoliosis curve, the elongated flexible member is fixed within a vertebral body screw head.

Claim (Index 1):
An orthopedic implant system for use in correcting scoliosis curves or other spinal deformities, comprising:\n a plurality of vertebral body screws each comprising a screw base and a screw head with a slot for accepting an insert; an elongated, elastically bendable beam engageable with the plurality of vertebral body screws via such inserts, the elastically bendable beam having unequal principal flexural rigidities so as to preferentially resist lateral bending with respect to a patient's spine; and a plurality of such inserts including at least one locking insert, the locking insert having a locking end cap threadable into the screw head of a respective one of the vertebral body screws to contact and hold the elongated, elastically bendable beam in place within the locking insert, and at least one non-locking insert, the non-locking insert having a non-locking end cap threadable into the screw head of a respective one of the vertebral body screws to contact an insert wall surrounding the elongated, elastically bendable beam while allowing the elongated, elastically bendable beam to freely slide within the non-locking insert; whereupon in an assembly of the plurality of vertebral body screws, the beam, and the plurality of inserts, the one of the plurality of vertebral body screws engaged with the beam via the at least one non-locking insert is freely movable along the beam with respect to the one of the plurality of vertebral body screws engaged with the beam via the at least one locking insert.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0274
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14679053', '14178978', '11919778', '13092397', '13000639']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7591993106992966
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5836066399926226
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7416400436286292
- Mean Citation Score: 286.87636200000014
- Max Citation Score: 519.4244
- Similarity Product: 505.9427285919905

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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