PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15752369
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["623", "017110"]

Abstract:
An adjustable spinal implant includes a fixed segment that slidably supports a locking segment and pivotally supports an upper segment and a lower segment relative to one another. The locking segment translates within a channel defined by the fixed segment between locked and unlocked positions. In the locked position, the upper and lower segments are fixed relative to one another and to the fixed segment. In the unlocked position, the upper and lower segments are pivotal relative to one another and to the fixed segment. The adjustable spinal implant includes a locking mechanism including a locking screw to translate the locking segment between locked and unlocked positions.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of inserting an adjustable spinal implant, the method comprising:\n positioning an adjustable spinal implant into an intervertebral space in a collapsed configuration, a distal end portion of the adjustable spinal implant having a first height in the collapsed configuration; unlocking the adjustable spinal implant when the adjustable spinal implant is positioned within the intervertebral space by disengaging locking teeth of a locking segment from teeth of a lower segment and teeth of an upper segment; transitioning the adjustable spinal implant to an expanded configuration by pivoting at least one of the lower segment or the upper segment of the adjustable spinal implant about a pivot axis defined by a fixed segment of the adjustable spinal implant such that a distal end portion of the adjustable spinal implant has a second height greater than the first height; and locking the adjustable spinal implant in the expanded configuration by engaging the locking teeth of the locking segment with the teeth of the lower segment and the teeth of the upper segment to fix the lower segment and the upper segment relative to the fixed segment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65116
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14282299', '15181822', '15417699', '14464892', '15340770']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7819545300253897
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4928017982722493
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7530392568500757
- Mean Citation Score: 261.780856
- Max Citation Score: 305.06058
- Similarity Product: 241.6790555053425

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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