PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16251014
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
Methods of additive manufacturing expandable medical implants is provided along with methods of patient imaging for 3D printing expandable spine cages and topographically matching patient specific implants. Methods for stabilizing and correcting the alignment of the spine are also provided. Spine pathologies such as lordosis, kyphosis and scoliosis can be corrected with properly expanding spine cages such as those described. Independent control and adjustment of the proximal and distal ends of spine cages allows for treating multiple horizontally affected intervertebral spaces.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the preoperative imaging comprises MRIs, 3D CT scans, or X-rays.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48276
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15831192', '15948982', '15668650', '16122534', '15485131']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8258029588373539
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5312720263836053
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7963498655919791
- Mean Citation Score: 429.27798600000006
- Max Citation Score: 437.3556
- Similarity Product: 285.05311991586683

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