PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16021564
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "264000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a novel rod reducing device including a screw jack mechanism that is moveably engaged with an elongated grasping fork assembly, the screw jack mechanism having an elongated threaded portion, the elongated threaded portion being connected at its most distal end to a rod contact member, which is positioned in sliding circumferential contact with each of the two opposing elongated grasping members and the most proximal end of the elongated threaded portion terminating in a controlling member, which can be activated in a measured and controlled manner. A method of using the device is also provided.

Claim (Index 16):
A surgical method comprising:\n positioning a rod proximate first and second bone screws, each bone screw including a slot configured to receive the rod; coupling first and second rod reducers to the first and second bone screws respectively, each rod reducer including:\n a fork assembly body defining a longitudinal axis, first and second arms coupled to respective first and second sides of the fork assembly body and extending distally therefrom, the first side of the fork assembly body different from the second side of the fork assembly body, the rod disposed between the first and second arms, \n a passage extending through the fork assembly body along the longitudinal axis thereof and including internal threads, and \n an elongated threaded screw shaft having external threads thereon, the external threads of the elongated threaded screw shaft engaged with the internal threads of the passage, a distal portion of the elongated threaded screw shaft configured to urge the rod towards the slot of the first or second bone screw; \n rotating the elongated threaded screw shaft of the first rod reducer to at least partially reduce the rod into the slot of the first bone screw; and rotating the elongated threaded screw shaft of the second rod reducer to at least partially reduce the rod into the slot of the second bone screw.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68852
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16021201', '11777730', '14609868', '15496768', '15394025']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8016047725313957
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.534206253882001
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7748649206664563
- Mean Citation Score: 365.517824
- Max Citation Score: 392.7135
- Similarity Product: 338.71626451081033

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