PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923972
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["623", "013140"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a system and method of knee ligament balancing for knee replacement procedures. The disclosure provides a system of components to implant to achieve ligament balancing. In addition, instruments and methods are provided to achieve the desired balance of the ligaments before final fixation.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 2 , wherein the applying tension comprises applying the tension to the second end portion of the elongate ligament support member adjacent the anchor side to thereby tension the elongate ligament support member on the ligament side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48571
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15670901', '14816939', '12413099', '12134713', '10727290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8559776171115838
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5647422758516116
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8268540829855866
- Mean Citation Score: 394.04316400000016
- Max Citation Score: 535.8106700000002
- Similarity Product: 402.6904672500647

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