PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16373054
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["606", "278000"]

Abstract:
A spinal screw assembly providing an adjustable securement of a fixation rod across at least two vertebrae. The assembly includes a pedicle screw having a spherical head portion, a threaded shaft portion and a tool engagement surface in the head portion for use in driving the screw into a vertebrae. The head portion of the screw is positioned in a body member adjacent a curvilinear surface disposed about an aperture in the end of the body member such that the shaft portion of the screw extends therethrough and the curvilinear inner surface abuts and mates with the head portion of the screw so as to define a ball joint therewith. The body member additionally defines a pair of opposed parallel slots therein adapted to receive a portion of the fixation rod and a locking cap bears against the fixation rod to releasably secure the rod within the assembly.

Claim (Index 9):
The spinal screw assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the screw is downloaded into the body member until the screw head slidably engages the axial bore interior seating surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93671
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14163797', '16372240', '13507857', '12154448', '10848946']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8744989047445899
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.561197973684969
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8431688116386279
- Mean Citation Score: 448.73569800000007
- Max Citation Score: 485.24792
- Similarity Product: 429.22213108753687

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

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