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 11):
The method of  claim 8 , wherein the surgical tool is coupled to an implant at a distal end of the surgical tool.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80282
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15178065', '13049619', '14639784', '13444142', '13335216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.836302794599671
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5732633471409283
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8099988498537969
- Mean Citation Score: 372.888862
- Max Citation Score: 591.5936
- Similarity Product: 422.1021881874085

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