PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961151
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "254000"]

Abstract:
An orthopedic implant system is disclosed for use in correcting or reducing the progression of scoliosis. The orthopedic implant system can be inserted laterally or posteriorly and comprises an elongated flexible member secured to a user's spinal column via a plurality of vertebral body screws. Typically, the height of the elongated flexible member is significantly greater than the width, creating a flattened cross-sectional aspect. The vertebral body screws comprise a screw base and a screw head with a slot sized to accept an insert. Typically, the elongated flexible member is positioned within the slot via the insert, and is allowed to slide within the screw head as needed, as the user moves. However, at the apex of the user's scoliosis curve, the elongated flexible member is fixed within a vertebral body screw head.

Claim (Index 22):
An orthopedic implant system for use in correcting scoliosis curves or other spinal deformities, comprising:\n a plurality of vertebral body screws each comprising a screw base and a screw head with a slot; an elongated, elastically bendable beam engageable with the plurality of vertebral body screws via the slots, the elastically bendable beam having unequal principal flexural rigidities so as to preferentially resist lateral bending with respect to a patient's spine; and a plurality of end caps including at least one locking end cap threadable into the screw head of a respective one of the vertebral body screws to contact and hold the elongated, elastically bendable beam in place within the screw head, and at least one non-locking end cap threadable into the screw head of a respective one of the vertebral body screws to close the slot while allowing the elongated, elastically bendable beam to slide within the slot as needed; whereupon in an assembly of the plurality of vertebral body screws, the beam, and the plurality of end caps, the one of the plurality of vertebral body screws closed by the at least one non-locking end cap is freely movable along the beam with respect to the one of the plurality of vertebral body screws holding the beam via the at least one locking end cap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0274
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14679053', '14178978', '11919778', '13092397', '13000639']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7593846620898275
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5830059573744958
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7417467916182944
- Mean Citation Score: 286.87636200000014
- Max Citation Score: 519.4244
- Similarity Product: 503.1422630870104

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

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