PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958626
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "091000"]

Abstract:
Implementations described and claimed herein provide an arthroplasty system and methods for positioning an acetabular cup implant. In one implementation, the system includes a shape-match hip guide having a patient specific mating region that is a negative of the surface contour of the inside surface of the patient's acetabular cup, and a directional rod that extends generally along the axis of the patient's femoral head and femoral neck. They system can additionally include an outrigger or silo device to aid in the alignment of surgical tools for preparing and implanting of the prosthetic acetabular cup in the patient's acetabular cup. Related methods are also disclosed herein for generating a shape-match guide and implanting an acetabular cup with the guide.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of planning and performing a surgical procedure on a target site of a patient, the method comprising:\n receiving medical images of the target site of the patient; determining an implant axis from the medical images in which to align a tool axis relative to the target site of the patient; aligning a central axis of a C-shaped coupler portion of an alignment guide relative to the patient bone such that the central axis is aligned with the target site, the C-shaped coupler portion configured to maintain the central axis in an aligned condition with the target site; inserting a shaft of a surgical tool within the C-shaped coupler portion; and distally advancing the surgical tool relative to the C-shaped coupler portion so as to contact the target site with the surgical tool.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80282
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15178065', '13049619', '14639784', '13444142', '13335216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8161480463781808
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5848161717727935
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7930148589176421
- Mean Citation Score: 372.888862
- Max Citation Score: 591.5936
- Similarity Product: 471.14116472740176

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

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