PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916139
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
A prosthetic disc for insertion between adjacent vertebrae includes a core having upper and lower curved surfaces, upper and lower plates, and peripheral restraining structure on at least one of the upper plate, the lower plate and the core. Each plate has an outer surface which engages a vertebra and an inner curved surface which slides over the curved surface of the core. The peripheral restraining structure serves to hold the core against a curved surface of at least one of the plates during sliding movement of the plates over the core.

Claim (Index 7):
A method as in  claim 1 , wherein the core is symmetrical about a central, equatorial plane which bisects the core laterally.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15583884', '15151310', '14612431', '10855253', '12464670']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8505646565154539
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5636851583420698
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8218767066981155
- Mean Citation Score: 349.333534
- Max Citation Score: 377.5322
- Similarity Product: 337.00670923372513

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

Dataset: test