PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975631
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["623", "017150"]

Abstract:
An implantable orthopedic stability device is disclosed. The device can have a contracted and an expanded configuration. A method of using the device between adjacent facet surfaces for support and/or fixation of either or both of the adjacent vertebrae is also disclosed.

Claim (Index 10):
An implantable orthopedic device, comprising:\n a first plate, having an outward-facing surface facing away from the device and an inward-facing surface opposed to the outward-facing surface, and having a plate longitudinal direction; a second plate opposed to the first plate; and a mechanism located between the first and second plates, the mechanism being capable of causing relative motion of the first and second plates toward or away from each other, wherein the mechanism has a locking reception configuration at a proximal terminal end of the mechanism, the device further comprising a locking element configured to rotate with respect to the first plate and the second plate; wherein the first plate comprises, on the inward-facing surface of the first plate, a planar ramp surface, wherein the planar ramp surface is inclined at an oblique ramp angle with respect to the plate longitudinal direction and defining a ramp direction, and wherein the oblique ramp angle ramp angle is from 15 degrees to 75 degrees; wherein the ramp surface the second plate in combination engage and capture the mechanism while permitting sliding of the mechanism relative to the planar ramp surface along the ramp direction; and wherein the first plate has a centrally located first opening therethrough and the second plate has a centrally located second opening therethrough and wherein a window region of space connecting the first opening and the second opening is not crossed by any object extending within the window region continuously from a proximal edge of the window region to a distal edge of the window region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.28571
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15382261', '15382279', '15442449', '12779865', '12780744']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8002285596842361
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4705470143359054
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7672604051494031
- Mean Citation Score: 221.370792
- Max Citation Score: 248.44965
- Similarity Product: 200.8214271904081

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

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