PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906215
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["606", "059000"]

Abstract:
A fixation system for fixing a bone fracture has a plurality of blocks, needles and rods that snap together in a framework around the fracture. The needles are inserted through the bone and the blocks are snapped onto the ends of the needles. Rods are snapped onto the blocks on both sides of the finger to keep the finger in place. Each block has two channels located on opposite sides and extending perpendicular to each other. The channels are structured so that a rod or needle having a diameter equal or slightly greater than one of the channels can be snapped into and retained by the channel.

Claim (Index 6):
A method of fixing a broken bone in a finger comprising:\n placing a plurality of needles through the bone such that the needles extend through the finger on at least one side of the bone; connecting each of the ends of each of the needles to a bracket comprising a block having a first channel extending in a first direction and being open to a first surface of the block, and having a second channel extending in a second direction and being open to a second surface of the block,\n wherein the first surface and second surface are located opposite each other, \n wherein the first channel is arranged perpendicular to the second channel, and wherein a width of the channel at each of the first and second surfaces is less than a diameter of the corresponding channel, \n wherein the step of connecting comprises snapping each end of each needle into the first channel of each block; and \n connecting each block on one side of the finger to a rod by snapping the rod into the second channel of each block on said one side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68657
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15402396', '14445231', '14367274', '14289069', '12293051']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7352218823104814
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.439908088730725
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7056905029525057
- Mean Citation Score: 131.8313132
- Max Citation Score: 220.32556
- Similarity Product: 217.6431042494917

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

Dataset: test