PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871973
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["606", "250000"]

Abstract:
A tulip assembly configured to be coupled to a screw head having a first diameter includes a housing, wherein the housing defines an inner diameter configured to engage the first diameter of the screw head. The exemplary inner diameter of the housing being smaller than the first diameter of the screw head.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for affixing a press-on pedicle screw assembly to a spine, comprising:\n inserting a first pedicle screw having a head portion with a head diameter into a first desired bone of a patient's spine; inserting a second pedicle screw having a head portion with a head diameter into a second desired bone of a patient's spine; after the first and second pedicle screws are inserted into the bones of the patient's spine, guiding a tulip assembly having a housing defining an engagement orifice and a bore extending into the housing from the engagement orifice, the engagement orifice and the bore having a fixed shape and an inner diameter defined by an inner wall of the housing that is smaller than the head diameter of the pedicle screws, until the engagement orifice is proximate the head portion of the first pedicle screw; and applying a force between the first pedicle screw and the tulip assembly whereby the head portion of the pedicle screw is drawn into the bore of the tulip assembly, thereby creating a compression fit between the inner wall of the housing and the head of the pedicle screw due to the head diameter of the pedicle screw being larger than the inner diameter of the engagement orifice and the bore.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89655
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11952709', '12056571', '11543348', '11327132', '11726868']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7986233557720358
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.512460799221563
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7700071001169886
- Mean Citation Score: 281.670484
- Max Citation Score: 375.9675
- Similarity Product: 295.97563453763723

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

Dataset: test