PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027498
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["623", "017120"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a next generation, closed profile, total disc replacement device with mechanical features designed to sustain, restrain and guide the larger motions required to preserve normal mechanical motion, while at the same time, providing a flexion component to guide and restrain the finer motions reached at the extremes of the mechanical motion preservation components.

Claim (Index 4):
The device according to  claim 3  wherein:\n i. said sheath surrounding said nucleus is retained in position by upper and lower sheath retention rings wherein each said upper and lower sheath retention ring binds a top aspect of said sheath to said top endplate and a bottom aspect of said sheath to said bottom endplate, respectively, to thereby securely and imperviously define a chamber about said nucleus by retaining said sheath within sheath retention ring raceways defined circumferentially about said top endplate and said bottom endplate, respectively; and \n ii. said sheath comprises of a thin, extremely elastic, biocompatible material, wherein sterile fluid is optionally included within the chamber delineated between said sheath, said top endplate, and said bottom endplate, wherein said fluid is incorporated during manufacture via a port provided in said bottom endplate or in said top endplate, wherein said port is sealed by a removable port plug.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43182
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14505972', '13042515', '12258977', '14433494', '12258961']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7897542761641854
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4742957651426556
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7582084250620325
- Mean Citation Score: 185.239444
- Max Citation Score: 195.68517
- Similarity Product: 131.60807717013716

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