PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051482
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["606", "279000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a surgical alignment and distraction frame and associated methods of use that facilitates correction of a sagittal imbalance. The alignment and distraction frame works in conjunction with pedicle screw installation guide assemblies to impart the desired correction. The alignment frame can be utilized to ensure the pedicle screw housings are aligned (to facilitate rod coupling) in concert with the completion of a correction maneuver.

Claim (Index 1):
A spinal alignment frame for facilitating alignment of vertebrae in the spine of a patient in conjunction with the installation of a spinal fixation construct, the spinal fixation construct including a pair of pedicle screws each including an anchor and a polyaxial housing that rotates relative to the anchor and a connecting rod that couples between the housings, each of the housings also being releasable coupleable to a screw extension instrument that extends out of the patient from the housing, the spinal alignment frame comprising:\n an elongated rack, a first coupler coupled to the rack and configured to be releasably coupled to an extension, and a second coupler coupled to the rack and configured to be releasably coupled to a guide, wherein the first coupler is rotatable relative to the rack and includes an indicator that indicates an angle of the first coupler relative to the rack, and wherein the second coupler is rotatable relative to the rack and includes an indicator that indicates an angle of the second coupler relative to the rack, at least one of the first coupler and the second coupler being translatable along the rack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51064
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14214099', '15295783', '14510107', '12125612', '15440961']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7870666241659852
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5216142904576991
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7605213907951566
- Mean Citation Score: 296.07655
- Max Citation Score: 388.69904
- Similarity Product: 376.2936139585782

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

Dataset: test