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 16):
A device according to  claim 1  which is a cervical spine total disc replacement device comprising at least one or a combination of:\n i. a top endplate and a Ring-Joint-Stop with a raceway defined therein for constraining rotational and translational motion of the top endplate with respect to the nucleus retained within said Ring-Joint-Stop raceway and the bottom endplate cavity; \n ii. a nucleus comprising a top dome portion, a core section unitary with or assembled to become unitary with said top dome portion, and a bottom foot section unitary with or assembled to become unitary with said bottom core section, wherein said nucleus is included in a cervical spine total disc replacement device comprising a top endplate with a conforming spherical concavity and a raceway to retain and constrain said top dome portion within a Ring-Joint-Stop portion of a top endplate; and a bottom endplate with a conforming cavity to retain and constrain the foot section; and \n iii. a cushion ring which 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): 0.7706213601206157
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4648521621450213
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7400444403230562
- Mean Citation Score: 185.239444
- Max Citation Score: 195.68517
- Similarity Product: 141.8719861903989

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

Dataset: test