PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16043781
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being inserted between adjacent vertebrae to facilitate the fusion process. The expandable fusion device may include first and second endplates, a translation member configured to expand an anterior side and/or posterior side of the device, a plurality of joists configured to connect the first and second endplates to the translation member, and first and second actuation members disposed internally to the device such that openings on a back side of the device can be used to expand or compress the anterior side, the posterior side, or both and such openings may also be used to introduce graft material into the device.

Claim (Index 11):
An expandable fusion device comprising:\n a first endplate; a second endplate; a translation member disposed at least partially between the first endplate and the second endplate, wherein the translation member assembly comprises:\n an anterior translation component disposed on an anterior side of the expandable fusion device, wherein the anterior translation portion comprises an anterior bore; \n a posterior translation component disposed on a posterior side of the expandable fusion device, wherein the posterior translation portion comprises a posterior bore, \n wherein the translation member is configured to expand the fusion device on an anterior side by moving an anterior side of the first endplate and an anterior side of the second endplate, wherein the translation member is configured to expand the fusion device on a posterior side by moving a posterior side of the first endplate and a posterior side of the second endplate; wherein the first endplate is engaged with the translation member via a first joist and a second joist, and wherein the second endplate is engaged with the translation member via a third joist and a fourth joist.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15601270', '15196231', '15956176', '13845645', '14485041']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8240807428092791
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5654290462437039
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7982155731527216
- Mean Citation Score: 405.9499379999999
- Max Citation Score: 500.8289
- Similarity Product: 438.58846363109353

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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