PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940542
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["623", "019130"]

Abstract:
Systems, kits and methods for long bone arthroplasty that include arrays of humeral head prosthesis components, each having on a first side a bone articulation surface that has an overall generally hemielliptical convex shape defined by a major axis and a minor axis, the bone articulation surface having an apex and a base that each has an non-circular elliptical cross sectional shape, the prosthesis components having on an opposite side, adjacent the base, a bone contact surface. The humeral head prosthesis components in the arrays vary from having a base with a more circular cross sectional shape to a more elongated elliptical cross sectional shape with increasing size.

Claim (Index 9):
The method for implanting a modular system for long bone arthroplasty according to  claim 1 , wherein the bone contact surface of each humeral head prosthesis component in the array includes on its bone contact surface an engagement surface for engagement with an anchor component, and further comprising the steps of\n (a) (ii) before or after steps (a)(i), (b), (c), and (e) and before steps (d) and (f) providing at least one bone anchor for engagement within at least a portion of a diaphysis of the long bone; (b) before or after steps (a)(i), (a)(ii), (c), (e) and (f), and before step (d) preparing the long bone for receiving the anchor component; (c) before or after steps (a)(ii), (b), and (d), and before steps (e), (f) and (g) selecting the humeral head prosthesis component from the array; (d) before or after steps (a)(i), (c), and (e), and after step (a)(ii) and (b) implanting the anchor component into the long bone, the anchor component at least partially recessed within a metaphysis and the diaphysis of the long bone; (e) before or after steps (a)(ii), (b), and (d), and after step (c) at least provisionally establishing the position of the selected humeral head prosthesis component relative to the metaphysis of the long bone; (f) after steps (a)(ii) and (b), engaging the selected humeral head prosthesis component with the anchor component; and (g) after step (f), selecting the orientation of the major and minor axes of the humeral head prosthesis component relative to a long axis of the long bone by rotating the humeral head prosthesis component relative to the anchor component.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9661
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15263012', '14586677', '11066978', '14329853', '12569206']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7771552818643417
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6602483688554943
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.765464590563457
- Mean Citation Score: 451.73903600000006
- Max Citation Score: 780.7361
- Similarity Product: 630.9226963202952

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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