PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031792
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["606", "280000"]

Abstract:
An improved tibial plateau leveling osteotomy plate is disclosed. The plate is contoured in its proximal head portion to more closely resemble the structure of the tibial bone segment that is cut and rotated during the procedure. The plate also preferably has screw holes in the proximal head portion that are machined through the pre-contoured proximal head portion and are designed to angle the screw in a targeted screw path with respect to the osteotomy.

Claim (Index 31):
A bone plate dimensioned for securing two tibial bone segments of an animal as part of a tibial leveling osteotomy procedure, the bone plate comprising:\n a distal portion configured for attachment to a shaft of a tibia, the distal portion having disposed therein a plurality of distal portion screw holes and defining a base plane including a bone contacting surface of the distal portion and a mid-plane bisecting the distal portion perpendicular to the base plane; a proximal portion configured for attachment to a resected proximal portion of the tibia, the resected portion comprising an articular surface at which the tibia interacts with a femur; the proximal portion having an upper surface and a bone-contacting surface opposite the upper surface, the bone-contacting surface being contoured to conform to a target portion of a surface of the resected portion of the tibia to which the proximal portion is to be attached, the proximal portion being partially defined by a bone contacting surface, at least a portion of the bone contacting surface curving about a radius of curvature extending in a rotation axis plane including a rotation axis, the rotation axis plane including an intersection line formed by the intersection of the mid-plane with a transverse plane transverse to the midplane and the base plane, the rotation axis plane being rotated relative to the mid-plane about the intersection line by a first angle, and wherein the first rotation axis extends within the rotation axis plane at an angle relative to the base plane; and a plurality of proximal portion locking screw holes extending through the bone-contacting surface of the proximal portion, the proximal portion locking screw holes locking bone screws inserted therethrough along screw axes selected to pass into the resected portion of bone without intersecting the articular surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.625
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11361245', '15133434', '14533768', '11788377', '14936556']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7637999625529054
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5967121354851048
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7470911798461253
- Mean Citation Score: 333.57137400000005
- Max Citation Score: 484.34073
- Similarity Product: 457.4188396538812

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