PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16151975
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
Method and apparatus are disclosed for distracting tissue and particularly spinal tissue. The device and method may include insertion of at least one elongated member and an augmenting member to form a structure between the tissues to be distraction, such that a dimensional aspect of the structure is augmented upon movement of the augmenting structure.

Claim (Index 105):
The method of  claim 104 , wherein\n a longitudinal passage is defined between the top portion and the bottom portion of the first elongated member, and said inserting said at least a portion of the augmenting elongated member includes inserting said at least a portion of the augmenting elongated member into the longitudinal passage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.34884
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15297634', '12035298', '15994050', '13869075', '14613551']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8768961707298573
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5386459390397357
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8430711475608451
- Mean Citation Score: 483.22366
- Max Citation Score: 491.77982
- Similarity Product: 306.7586701029825

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