PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16151975
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
Method and apparatus are disclosed for distracting tissue and particularly spinal tissue. The device and method may include insertion of at least one elongated member and an augmenting member to form a structure between the tissues to be distraction, such that a dimensional aspect of the structure is augmented upon movement of the augmenting structure.

Claim (Index 102):
The tissue distraction device of  claim 87 , wherein the first elongated member has a generally rectangular shape in the first and second configurations in a plane perpendicular to a length of the first elongated member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.34884
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15297634', '12035298', '15994050', '13869075', '14613551']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8743341035655412
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5522072572306111
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8421214189320483
- Mean Citation Score: 483.22366
- Max Citation Score: 491.77982
- Similarity Product: 378.9743039591336

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