PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918762
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "266000"]

Abstract:
A coupling assembly for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element, and including a receiving part having a first end, a second end, and an accommodation space having an opening at the second end for inserting a head of the bone anchoring element, a pressure element insertable from the first end, positionable in the accommodation space, and configured to hold the head, the pressure element having at least one spring portion extending circumferentially around the pressure element and being radially compressible, and a rod receiving element separable from the pressure element, wherein in a first position, the spring portion is configured to engage an engagement structure at an inner wall of the receiving part to prevent movement of the pressure element towards the first end, and wherein the rod receiving element is configured to move the pressure element from the first position towards the second end.

Claim (Index 11):
The coupling assembly of  claim 1 , wherein an end of the pressure element has a recessed portion that allows pivoting of the bone anchoring element to a greater angle relative to the receiving part in a radial direction of the recessed portion compared to other radial directions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69492
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14490569', '14339304', '14596170', '14596169', '14964444']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8291178333853533
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5377734649618057
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7999833965429985
- Mean Citation Score: 384.647442
- Max Citation Score: 433.19543
- Similarity Product: 376.4702296493656

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