PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878601
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of inserting an implant comprising providing an expandable vertebral implant. The method further may comprise providing an angling inserter tool. The angling inserter tool comprises a handle portion, a base portion, and a tip assembly, the base portion being disposed between the handle portion and the tip assembly. The method further may comprise distally advancing a central shaft of the tip assembly with rotation into an opening in the expandable vertebral implant to secure the angling inserter tool to the expandable vertebral implant. The method further may comprise positioning the expandable vertebral implant in a patient's spine. The method further may comprise for causing the tip assembly to angulate with respect to a longitudinal axis of the angling inserter tool, wherein the internal shaft is coaxial with an outer cylinder of the base portion.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 14 , wherein rotating the primary drive shaft causes a gear at a distal end of the primary drive shaft to rotate about a longitudinal axis of the angling inserter tool, wherein rotation of the gear causes rotation of a first central gear having a rotational axis that is generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, wherein rotation of the gear causes rotation of a second central gear that is coaxial with the first central gear, wherein rotation of the second central gear causes rotation of another gear that, in turn, causes rotation of an implant engagement gear.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53333
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14281458', '15139684', '13421411', '13440129', '14819778']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8570857025542477
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5637480913839565
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8277519414372185
- Mean Citation Score: 435.929652
- Max Citation Score: 480.02545
- Similarity Product: 452.7289283295154

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