PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936107
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "253000"]

Abstract:
A posterior cervical fixation system including an occipital plate member, a cross connector, a pair of elongated spinal rods and a plurality of polyaxial screws. The occipital plate member configured for fixing to an occipital bone comprises an aperture to receive a bone anchor member to secure the occipital plate member to the occipital bone and at least one rod clamping element dimensioned to receive at least one spinal rod. The cross connector secures the pair of elongated spinal rods to vertebral bodies. The cross connector includes a pair of collet connectors and a cross bar that is configured to secure the pair of elongated spinal rods in a desired distance. Each polyaxial screw has an anchor head associated with a fastening member. The pair of elongated spinal rods is configured to extend along the vertebral bodies between the occipital plate member and at least one of the polyaxial screws.

Claim (Index 1):
An adjustable angle occipital rod, comprising:\n a first rod portion having a first end and a second rod portion having a second end, the first end and the second end cooperating to form a hinge, wherein the first end includes a first plate and a second plate separated by a space, the first plate having an interior pocket and the second plate having a threaded aperture extending therethrough, the interior pocket housing a first disc with a first engagement surface facing the second plate, the second end includes a third plate that sits between the first plate and the second plate, the third plate including a second disc with an second engagement surface facing the first engagement surface, the adjustable rod including an unlocked configuration in which the first engagement surface and second engagement surface are separated from one another and the first rod portion and second rod portion rotate relative to each other about the hinge, and a locked configuration in which a set screw advanced through the threaded aperture urges the third plate towards the first plate such that the second engagement surface engages the first engagement surface to inhibit rotation about the hinge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43077
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13410213', '15182414', '14763999', '14807375', '13608366']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8352234825979021
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5396811245168984
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8056692467898018
- Mean Citation Score: 390.77117
- Max Citation Score: 494.49817
- Similarity Product: 331.89304229557274

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

Dataset: test