PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869442
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
A flexible chain implant for insertion into an interior volume of a vertebral body. The implant may be implanted in an insertion position for sliding through a cannula and is flexible for packing into the interior volume in an implanted configuration. The implant randomly separates in the implanted configuration. The implant includes a top member and a bottom member, wherein the top and bottom members are coupled to one another at a coupled portion. The top and bottom members preferably each include an inner surface such that the inner surfaces include a plurality of alternating projections and recesses so that the projections are received within the recesses in an insertion position. Alternatively, the implant may include a plurality of substantially non-flexible bodies and a plurality of substantially flexible links interconnecting the bodies. The non-flexible bodies include a plurality of facets and/or abutment surfaces.

Claim (Index 2):
A system, comprising:\n an introducer configured to be inserted into an interior volume within bone, the introducer defining a cannula and an advancement mechanism disposed within the cannula, the cannula elongate along a longitudinal direction, the cannula defining a proximal end and a distal end spaced from the proximal end in a distal direction oriented along the longitudinal direction, at least a portion of the advancement mechanism having a spiral geometry that defines a plurality of coils; and a flexible chain implant having a plurality of bodies interconnected by a plurality of links, wherein the plurality of bodies are configured to be weaved into the plurality of coils and disposed within the cannula, such that rotation of the advancement mechanism advances the flexible chain implant through the cannula and outward from the distal end of the cannula in the distal direction and into the interior volume.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2029
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14165979', '12601468', '15333275', '13558662', '12775876']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7973664125493009
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5256379032322076
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7701935616175916
- Mean Citation Score: 311.333022
- Max Citation Score: 407.7515
- Similarity Product: 303.00091228017214

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