PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899014
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["623", "017110"]

Abstract:
An expandable implant includes an implant body defining an internal void, the implant body including a plurality of interconnected linkages. A first plurality of the linkages has an expansion characteristic that is different from a second plurality of the linkages. An expandable bladder is sized to be disposed in the internal void. The bladder defines a bore configured to receive an expansion material, such that the expansion material applies an expansion force against the bladder, which thereby applies the expansion force against the implant body so as to cause the first linkage to expand greater than the second linkage. The expandable implant can be placed in a fracture location so as to restore height to a fractured target bone.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of restoring height to a fractured target bone, the method comprising:\n positioning a distal end of a cannulated body adjacent a target bone, the cannulated body being substantially straight and having a proximal end spaced from the distal end; inserting an opening device through the cannulated body such that a distal end of the opening device extends distally beyond the distal end of the cannulated body and into the target bone, the opening device defining a cannula, the distal end of the opening device having a cutting member, wherein a distal portion of the opening device located proximate the cutting member is substantially axially straight while located within the cannulated body and is axially curved after extending beyond the distal end of the cannulated body; engaging bone material within the target bone with the cutting member in a manner forming a curved guide path within the target bone; and inserting an expandable implant through the cannulated body and through the cannula of the opening device and along the curved guide path within the target bone, wherein a central axis of the expandable implant is curved while the expandable implant is positioned along the curved guide path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04839
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15164762', '12775876', '12859732', '14700255', '13953186']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7946310085052618
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5342403568678517
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7685919433415207
- Mean Citation Score: 322.08981
- Max Citation Score: 412.17645
- Similarity Product: 400.6283122633964

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