PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938442
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
A spinal implant which is configured to be deployed between adjacent vertebral bodies. The implant has at least one fixation element with a retracted configuration to facilitate deployment of the implant and an extended configuration so as to engage a surface of an adjacent vertebral body and secure the implant between two vertebral bodies. Preferably, the implant is expandable and has a minimal dimension in its unexpanded state that is smaller than the dimensions of the neuroforamen through which it must pass to be deployed within the intervertebral space. Once within the space between vertebral bodies, the implant can be expanded so as to engage the endplates of the adjacent vertebrae to effectively distract the anterior disc space, stabilize the motion segments and eliminate pathologic spine motion. Angular deformities can be corrected, and natural curvatures restored and maintained.

Claim (Index 1):
A spinal implant for placement in a space between opposed first and second vertebral bodies, the implant comprising:\n a first surface for engaging the first vertebral body; a second surface for engaging the second vertebral body; and an extendable fixation element having a pointed distal tip, the extendable fixation element being extendable from a contracted configuration within the implant to an extended configuration in which the pointed distal tip extends beyond the second surface to engage the second vertebral body and fix the implant within the space between the first and second vertebral bodies; wherein the implant is adapted to be expanded by moving the first surface away from the second surface, and wherein the extendable fixation element is extendable independently of the expansion of the implant.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79268
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14594569', '12072044', '12548260', '12384622', '11692800']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8071103727750534
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5233102686952319
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7787303623670713
- Mean Citation Score: 334.287
- Max Citation Score: 387.29523
- Similarity Product: 364.7305004632044

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