PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956270
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "063000"]

Abstract:
Intramedullary systems, expandable intramedullary nails, expandable anchors, and methods of using the same. The intramedullary system may include an expandable intramedullary nail configured to extend into an intramedullary canal of a long bone and/or one or more expandable anchors configured to extend at an angle transverse to the intramedullary nail. The intramedullary nails and/or anchors may include one or more integrated expansion mechanisms that allow for insertion in a contracted configuration and expansion into a deployed configuration to lock the relative position and prevent axial rotation and translation of the system.

Claim (Index 20):
A method for stabilizing a long bone, the method comprising:\n inserting an expandable intramedullary nail into an intramedullary canal of a long bone, the intramedullary nail comprising an elongate nail body having a proximal portion and a distal portion, an elongate adjustment rod extending through the nail body, and an actuation member, the proximal portion having an opening extending therethrough, and the distal portion having one or more expandable fixation members disposed in the nail body in a contracted position, one of the one more expandable fixation members extending from a first end to a second end along a longitudinal axis of the intramedullary nail; inserting an expandable proximal anchor through the opening and transverse to the intramedullary nail, the proximal anchor having a cannulated elongate body, an actuation mechanism extending longitudinally through the elongate body, and at least one expandable securing member engaged with the actuation mechanism; deploying the one or more expandable fixation members from the intramedullary nail by rotating the actuation member and thereby moving the adjustment rod longitudinally through the nail body, wherein the one or more fixation members radially extend from the intramedullary nail to an expanded position to securely anchor the distal portion of intramedullary nail in the intramedullary canal, wherein, when deployed, the first end and the second end of the expandable fixation member are extended outwardly the same distance from the longitudinal axis of intramedullary nail; and deploying the at least one expandable securing member from the elongate body of the anchor by linear movement of the actuation mechanism, wherein the at least one expandable securing member radially extends from the anchor to an expanded position to securely anchor the proximal portion of intramedullary nail in the intramedullary canal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83019
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14946839', '14946939', '14946914', '14946894', '15462045']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8478567304930343
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6280637093600617
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8258774283797371
- Mean Citation Score: 548.262878
- Max Citation Score: 624.998
- Similarity Product: 609.2465544474127

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

Dataset: test