PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16021564
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "264000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a novel rod reducing device including a screw jack mechanism that is moveably engaged with an elongated grasping fork assembly, the screw jack mechanism having an elongated threaded portion, the elongated threaded portion being connected at its most distal end to a rod contact member, which is positioned in sliding circumferential contact with each of the two opposing elongated grasping members and the most proximal end of the elongated threaded portion terminating in a controlling member, which can be activated in a measured and controlled manner. A method of using the device is also provided.

Claim (Index 2):
A surgical method comprising:\n positioning a rod proximate a bone screw, the bone screw including a slot for accepting a portion of the rod; coupling a rod reducer to the bone screw, the rod reducer including:\n a fork assembly body defining a longitudinal axis, first and second arms coupled to respective first and second sides of the fork assembly body and extending therefrom, the first side of the fork assembly body different from the second side of the fork assembly body, \n a passage extending through the fork assembly body along the longitudinal axis thereof and including internal threads, and \n an elongated threaded screw shaft having external threads thereon rotatably engaged with the internal threads of the passage, a distal portion of the elongated threaded screw shaft engageable with the rod, \n wherein coupling the rod reducer to the bone screw further includes mounting the rod reducer to the bone screw by engaging protrusions on the first and second arms with an outside surface of the bone screw, the rod disposed between the first and second arms and the elongated threaded screw shaft threadably engaged with the internal threads of the passage of the fork assembly body; and \n rotating the elongated threaded screw shaft such that a distal portion of the elongated threaded screw shaft moves between the first and second arms to urge the rod towards the slot of the bone screw.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68852
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16021201', '11777730', '14609868', '15496768', '15394025']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8012831863518288
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5347454057995294
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7746294082965989
- Mean Citation Score: 365.517824
- Max Citation Score: 392.7135
- Similarity Product: 351.8811848466397

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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