PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942846
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
In some aspects, the present invention is a medical implant with an independent endplate structure that can stimulate bone or tissue growth in or around the implant. When used as a scaffold for bone growth, the inventive structure can increase the strength of new bone growth. The independent endplate structures generally include implants with endplates positioned on opposite sides of the implant and capable of at least some movement relative to one another. In most examples, the endplates have a higher elastic modulus than that of the bulk of the implant to allow the use of an implant with a low elastic modulus, without risk of damage from the patient's bone. A method of designing independent endplate implants is also disclosed, including ranges of elastic moduli for the endplates and bulk of the implant for given implant parameters. Implants with elastic moduli within the ranges disclosed herein can optimize the loading of new bone growth to provide increased bone strength.

Claim (Index 6):
The implant of  claim 1 , wherein the implant is configured to fuse non-adjacent levels of the spine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93258
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15615227', '13420206', '13678152', '15876903', '15876695']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7609547086630462
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5693117669686159
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7417904144936031
- Mean Citation Score: 304.594454
- Max Citation Score: 518.961
- Similarity Product: 383.4906616203189

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

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