PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869442
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
A flexible chain implant for insertion into an interior volume of a vertebral body. The implant may be implanted in an insertion position for sliding through a cannula and is flexible for packing into the interior volume in an implanted configuration. The implant randomly separates in the implanted configuration. The implant includes a top member and a bottom member, wherein the top and bottom members are coupled to one another at a coupled portion. The top and bottom members preferably each include an inner surface such that the inner surfaces include a plurality of alternating projections and recesses so that the projections are received within the recesses in an insertion position. Alternatively, the implant may include a plurality of substantially non-flexible bodies and a plurality of substantially flexible links interconnecting the bodies. The non-flexible bodies include a plurality of facets and/or abutment surfaces.

Claim (Index 18):
The system of  claim 17 , wherein the plurality of facets of each body includes:\n a center facet that has at least five edges and that extends along the longitudinal direction; and a plurality of surrounding facets, each sharing a different edge with the center facet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2029
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14165979', '12601468', '15333275', '13558662', '12775876']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.816908108003467
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5254487013103015
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7877621673341505
- Mean Citation Score: 311.333022
- Max Citation Score: 407.7515
- Similarity Product: 266.5719917078018

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

Dataset: test