PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958626
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "091000"]

Abstract:
Implementations described and claimed herein provide an arthroplasty system and methods for positioning an acetabular cup implant. In one implementation, the system includes a shape-match hip guide having a patient specific mating region that is a negative of the surface contour of the inside surface of the patient's acetabular cup, and a directional rod that extends generally along the axis of the patient's femoral head and femoral neck. They system can additionally include an outrigger or silo device to aid in the alignment of surgical tools for preparing and implanting of the prosthetic acetabular cup in the patient's acetabular cup. Related methods are also disclosed herein for generating a shape-match guide and implanting an acetabular cup with the guide.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of inserting an implant device into a target site of a patient during a surgical procedure, the method comprising:\n implanting a reference rod into a first bone at the target site; coupling the reference rod to a first coupler portion of an alignment guide; aligning a central axis of a second coupler portion of the alignment guide relative to a pre-operatively planned insertion axis, the first and second coupler portions of the alignment guide adjustably coupled together, the second coupler portion comprising a pair of jaws including opposed ends, an inner tool-engaging surface defined between the opposed ends of the pair of jaws, and an opened portion opposite the inner tool-engaging surface and positioned between the opposed ends of the pair of jaws, the central axis aligned centrally between the pair of jaws; inserting a shaft of a surgical tool in between the pair of jaws of the second coupler portion such that a shaft axis of the shaft is generally coaxial with the central axis of the second coupler portion; and distally advancing the surgical tool relative to the pair of jaws, wherein the pair of jaws maintains the shaft axis of the shaft of the surgical tool generally coaxially aligned with the central axis during the distal advancement.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80282
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15178065', '13049619', '14639784', '13444142', '13335216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8164881299292674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5833743527660739
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7931767522129481
- Mean Citation Score: 372.888862
- Max Citation Score: 591.5936
- Similarity Product: 465.99788931770325

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

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