PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027498
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["623", "017120"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a next generation, closed profile, total disc replacement device with mechanical features designed to sustain, restrain and guide the larger motions required to preserve normal mechanical motion, while at the same time, providing a flexion component to guide and restrain the finer motions reached at the extremes of the mechanical motion preservation components.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of making a device comprising:\n a. manufacturing a top endplate for engagement with a top dome portion of a nucleus, such that said top endplate is engaged in a ball and socket configuration with said top dome portion of a nucleus to form a first joint of defined, and mechanically constrained, ranges of motion; b. manufacturing a nucleus comprising a top dome portion, a core portion, and a bottom foot portion; c. manufacturing a bottom endplate translationally engaged with said bottom foot portion of said nucleus to form a second joint of defined ranges of motion; and d. assembling said top endplate with said nucleus and assembling said bottom endplate with said nucleus such that, following assembly, super-physiological force is required to disassemble said device; wherein said top endplate comprises a nucleus retaining mechanism providing defined, and mechanically constrained, degrees of rotational motion of said top endplate about the top surface of said nucleus when said top endplate and said nucleus are engaged with each other in a ball and socket configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43182
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14505972', '13042515', '12258977', '14433494', '12258961']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.771323484169314
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4609409983297919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7402852355853617
- Mean Citation Score: 185.239444
- Max Citation Score: 195.68517
- Similarity Product: 147.49321147770524

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

Dataset: test