PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16043781
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being inserted between adjacent vertebrae to facilitate the fusion process. The expandable fusion device may include first and second endplates, a translation member configured to expand an anterior side and/or posterior side of the device, a plurality of joists configured to connect the first and second endplates to the translation member, and first and second actuation members disposed internally to the device such that openings on a back side of the device can be used to expand or compress the anterior side, the posterior side, or both and such openings may also be used to introduce graft material into the device.

Claim (Index 1):
An expandable fusion device comprising:\n a first endplate; a second endplate; a first joist and a second joist connected to the first endplate; a third joist and a fourth joist connected to the second endplate; a translation member assembly in engagement with the first joist, second joist, third joist, and fourth joist; a first actuation member in engagement with the translation member assembly, wherein the first actuation member is configured to move the first joist and the third joist such that the first endplate and the second endplate move in a direction away from the translation member assembly on a first side of the expandable fusion device; and a second actuation member in engagement with the translation member assembly, wherein the second actuation member is configured to move the second joist and the fourth joist such that the first endplate and the second endplate move in a direction away from the translation member assembly on a second side of the expandable fusion device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15601270', '15196231', '15956176', '13845645', '14485041']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8266216750442126
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5551542910365083
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7994749366434422
- Mean Citation Score: 405.9499379999999
- Max Citation Score: 500.8289
- Similarity Product: 386.4496134329081

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

Dataset: test