PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031792
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["606", "280000"]

Abstract:
An improved tibial plateau leveling osteotomy plate is disclosed. The plate is contoured in its proximal head portion to more closely resemble the structure of the tibial bone segment that is cut and rotated during the procedure. The plate also preferably has screw holes in the proximal head portion that are machined through the pre-contoured proximal head portion and are designed to angle the screw in a targeted screw path with respect to the osteotomy.

Claim (Index 21):
A bone plate dimensioned for securing two tibial bone segments of an animal as part of a tibial leveling osteotomy procedure, the bone plate comprising:\n a distal portion comprising an elongated segment configured for attachment to a shaft of a tibia, the distal portion having disposed therein a plurality of distal portion screw holes each designed to accept a screw therethrough to secure the distal portion to the shaft of the tibia and defining a base plane including a bone contacting surface of the distal portion and a mid-plane bisecting the distal portion perpendicular to the base plane; a proximal portion configured for attachment to a resected proximal portion of the tibia, the resected portion comprising an articular surface at which the tibia interacts with a femur; the proximal portion having an upper surface and a bone-contacting surface opposite the upper surface, the bone-contacting surface being pre-contoured to conform to a target portion of a surface of the resected portion of the tibia to which the proximal portion is to be attached, the proximal portion being partially defined by a concave bone contacting surface, a curvature of at least a portion of the bone contacting surface extending about a radius of curvature extending in a rotation axis plane including a first rotation axis defined by an intersection of the base plane and a transverse plane transverse to the midplane and the base plane, the rotation axis plane being rotated relative to the base plane about the first rotation axis by a first angle, and wherein the radius of curvature is rotated within the rotation axis plane by a second angle relative to a second rotation axis defined by an intersection of the mid-plane and the transverse plane; and a plurality of proximal portion locking screw holes located in the proximal portion extending through the bone-contacting surface, the proximal portion locking screw holes locking bone screws inserted therethrough along screw axes selected to pass into the resected portion of bone without intersecting the articular surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.625
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11361245', '15133434', '14533768', '11788377', '14936556']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7633224073225034
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5981679510246264
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7468069616927158
- Mean Citation Score: 333.57137400000005
- Max Citation Score: 484.34073
- Similarity Product: 465.80989074256

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