PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963526
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["606", "102000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus for locating an attachment position for a reconstructed anterior cruciate ligament on an attachment surface of a bone comprises locating means  51, 61  arranged to locate at least one reference surface  4  of the bone and guide means  53, 54  arranged to define the attachment position in two dimensions on the attachment surface relative to the reference surface.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of locating an attachment positon for a reconstructed anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) at a lateral condyle of a femur comprising:\n passing a tip of a locating instrument at least partially through an intercondylar notch of a femur by moving the locating instrument distally and laterally relative to the femur; moving the locating instrument to bring the tip of the locating instrument into contact with a back surface of the lateral condyle; contacting a first surface of a side piece of the locating instrument against a side wall of the lateral condyle; and contacting a second surface of the side piece of the locating instrument against a roof of the intercondylar notch at the same time the first surface is contacting the side wall of lateral condyle and the tip of the locating instrument is contacting the back surface of the lateral condyle to locate the instrument relative to the femur.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58974
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15679820', '15144991', '14850017', '12225460', '13532935']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8188638150740994
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.556598151588398
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7926372487255293
- Mean Citation Score: 427.525946
- Max Citation Score: 465.8322
- Similarity Product: 460.9281554416895

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

Dataset: test