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 15):
The method according to  claim 14  further comprising at least one or a combination of:\n i. snap-fitting a top portion of said nucleus through an orifice defined in a Ring-Joint-Stop unitary with said top endplate for rotational retention within a raceway; \n ii. assembling a Ring-Joint-Stop about a middle portion of said nucleus of lower diameter than said top portion of said nucleus, such that following said assembling about said nucleus, assembling said Ring-Joint-Stop with said top endplate to define a raceway within which said nucleus top portion is rotationally retained; \n iii. snap-fitting said nucleus lower portion through an orifice defined in a nucleus lower portion retention plate unitary with said bottom endplate for retention within a cavity defined within said bottom endplate; and \n iv. assembling a nucleus lower portion retention plate about a portion of said nucleus narrower than an orifice defined in said nucleus lower portion retention plate and assembling said nucleus lower portion retention plate with said bottom endplate, wherein said orifice is too narrow for said nucleus lower portion to pass through such that said nucleus lower portion is retained within a cavity defined within said bottom endplate.

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): 0.7681355548245334
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.478662433076844
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7391882426497646
- Mean Citation Score: 185.239444
- Max Citation Score: 195.68517
- Similarity Product: 122.06859169091642

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