PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970682
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "289000"]

Abstract:
A variable angle locking implant includes a bone plate having a lower surface, an upper surface, and at least one opening extending from the lower surface to the upper surface along an axis. The opening has a plurality of fins oriented along a plane. The axis is non-perpendicular to a tangent of a projection of the lower surface across the opening, the tangent defined at the intersection between the axis and the projected lower surface, and/or the plane is non-parallel to the tangent. The implant includes at least one fastener, and the plurality of fins are deflectable relative to a head portion of the fastener such that the fastener can be inserted and retained at any one of a plurality of angles.

Claim (Index 4):
The implant of  claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of upper and lower fins include inwardly tapered side surfaces.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22034
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15970732', '15970747', '11996795', '14605651', '15970760']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.82172954530286
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5254694350186283
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7921035342744369
- Mean Citation Score: 257.80332400000003
- Max Citation Score: 306.0424799999999
- Similarity Product: 302.32590944621074

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

Dataset: test