PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "08600R"]

Abstract:
A pedicle insulator implant is designed to protect the nerves and surrounding tissue from injury by pedicle screws or other surgical devices and instruments. In its basic structure, the implant has a thicker section and a thinner section, the thicker section providing protection for nerves and other sensitive tissues while the thinner section can be deformable and provides grip. In one variation of the basic structure, the thinner section possess a rough surface when it is desirable in situations to provide further grip of the assembly and prevent rotation during the insertion of, for example, a pedicle screw.

Claim (Index 32):
A pedicle insulator implant, implantable in a vertebral body of a spine, comprising:\n a non-continuous cylindrical wall defining an interior cavity and having a first end and a second end; a first segment of the cylindrical wall comprising a smooth exterior surface; and a second segment of the cylindrical wall comprising a rough exterior surface, wherein:\n i) the first segment of the cylindrical wall is of a greater thickness than the second segment of the cylindrical wall; and \n ii) the first segment comprises a first material and the second segment comprises a second material, \n whereby the pedicle insulator implant is configured to shield a fixture, reduce nerve root irritation, and diminish loosening of the fixture, when the fixture is implanted into a vertebral body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65625
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14723620', '11751708', '11712257', '14281013', '14620231']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7099042121232394
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4869232438729036
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6876061152982058
- Mean Citation Score: 189.990242
- Max Citation Score: 300.067
- Similarity Product: 288.69715220749384

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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