PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926051
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "250000"]

Abstract:
Articulating implant connectors and related methods are disclosed herein. Exemplary connectors can include first and second bodies that are rotatable relative to one another about a rotation axis and selectively lockable to resist or prevent such rotation. Each of the bodies can be configured to couple to a rod or other fixation component, and the connector can be used to lock first and second rods together even when the rods are obliquely angled with respect to one another.

Claim (Index 44):
The connector of  claim 43 , wherein the saddle includes a saddle protrusion extending distally from an edge of the saddle adjacent to the bearing surface of the saddle, the saddle protrusion being received within a slot formed in the hinge pin adjacent to the bearing surface of the hinge pin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 86.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51852
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15471075', '15284587', '15158127', '15430188', '13570374']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7809602540618111
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5350654139247546
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7563707700481055
- Mean Citation Score: 299.311824
- Max Citation Score: 430.35706
- Similarity Product: 284.1560010395789

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

Dataset: test