PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16219814
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["623", "017150"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. The fusion device described herein is capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space at a minimum to no distraction height and for a fusion device capable of maintaining a normal distance between adjacent vertebral bodies when implanted.

Claim (Index 24):
A method for implanting an expandable fusion device between two adjacent vertebrae comprising:\n inserting the device, having a width and a height, between two adjacent vertebrae; actuating a drive feature by a first number of actuations in a first actuation to increase the width without increasing the height; and, actuating the drive feature by the second number of actuations beyond the first number of actuations in the first actuation direction to increase at least one of the height and the width; attaching an inserter to the expandable fusion device, the device having a width and a height and comprising a drive feature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58696
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14485041', '14449428', '15196231', '15956176', '15805605']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8005623794978699
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5093954921855589
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7714456907666388
- Mean Citation Score: 254.58907800000003
- Max Citation Score: 263.69177
- Similarity Product: 211.9836851615733

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

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