PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882381
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["433", "018000"]

Abstract:
An adjustable segmental distalization appliance for orthodontic treatments features elongated first and second components that cooperatively define a central body of the appliance spanning longitudinally between an anterior end of the first component and a distal end of the second component. First and second terminal heads are respectively carried at the anterior and distal ends and adapted for attachment to first and second teeth of a dental arch. The first and second components are arranged for selective longitudinal displacement relative to one another to adjust an overall length of the central body to adapt to a patient-specific mesial-distal distance between the first and second teeth of the dental arch. In one embodiment, one component is a tubular female component carrying a ratchet pawl, and the other component is an insertable male component with cooperating ratchet teeth for incremental extension of the central body.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of using the distalization appliance of  claim 1 , said method comprising performing said relative longitudinal displacement of the first and second components to adjust the overall length of the central body according to the patient-specific mesial-distal distance between said first and second teeth of said dental arch, and attaching the first and second terminal heads to said first and second teeth of said dental arch with the central body set according to said patient-specific mesial-distal distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96053
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15393078', '14936466', '11253410', '15451753', '13362584']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6693623856198557
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4551252473050298
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.647938671788373
- Mean Citation Score: 170.63951799999995
- Max Citation Score: 179.89531000000005
- Similarity Product: 147.3235694911081

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

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