PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923972
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["623", "013140"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a system and method of knee ligament balancing for knee replacement procedures. The disclosure provides a system of components to implant to achieve ligament balancing. In addition, instruments and methods are provided to achieve the desired balance of the ligaments before final fixation.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein the elongate ligament support member comprises a suture and a cable coupled to the suture, wherein the extending the elongate ligament support member along the loose ligament comprises extending the suture along the loose ligament, and wherein the passing the second end portion of the elongate ligament support member through the passage comprises passing the cable through the passage through the second bone element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48571
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15670901', '14816939', '12413099', '12134713', '10727290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8567046707900362
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5611222479811933
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8271464285091519
- Mean Citation Score: 394.04316400000016
- Max Citation Score: 535.8106700000002
- Similarity Product: 387.2121671281506

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

Dataset: test