PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027498
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["623", "017120"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a next generation, closed profile, total disc replacement device with mechanical features designed to sustain, restrain and guide the larger motions required to preserve normal mechanical motion, while at the same time, providing a flexion component to guide and restrain the finer motions reached at the extremes of the mechanical motion preservation components.

Claim (Index 14):
The method according to  claim 13  further comprising any one or a combination of:\n i. said bottom endplate comprises a nucleus retaining mechanism which provides defined, and mechanically constrained, degrees of planar translational motion of a bottom foot end of said nucleus when said bottom end of said nucleus is translationally engaged within said bottom endplate; \n ii. said top endplate comprises a nucleus retaining and mechanism providing defined, and mechanically constrained, degrees of rotational motion of said top endplate about the top surface of said nucleus when said top endplate and said nucleus are engaged with each other and wherein said bottom endplate comprises a nucleus retaining mechanism which provides defined, and mechanically constrained, degrees of planar translational motion of a bottom end of said nucleus when said bottom end of said nucleus is translationally engaged within said bottom endplate; \n iii. manufacturing a sheath, surrounding said nucleus with said sheath, and \n retaining said sheath in position surrounding said nucleus by an upper and a lower sheath retention ring, binding a top aspect of said sheath to said top endplate with an upper retention ring, and binding a bottom aspect of said sheath to said bottom endplate with a lower retention ring; \n iv. assembling said device via a snap-fit or a non-snap-fit mechanism; and \n v. manufacturing at least one cushion ring and including it in the device such that it interacts with a Ring-Joint-Stop (RJS) to protect the RJS and retainer plate from impingement damage and to resist further rotation motion as the RJS contacts and compresses said cushion ring, where said contact and compressions are caused by rotations exceeding their Range-of-Motion (ROM) dictated by the RJS.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43182
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14505972', '13042515', '12258977', '14433494', '12258961']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7702549509424113
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4668914220502799
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7399185980531982
- Mean Citation Score: 185.239444
- Max Citation Score: 195.68517
- Similarity Product: 138.94361637676477

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