PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975631
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["623", "017150"]

Abstract:
An implantable orthopedic stability device is disclosed. The device can have a contracted and an expanded configuration. A method of using the device between adjacent facet surfaces for support and/or fixation of either or both of the adjacent vertebrae is also disclosed.

Claim (Index 14):
An implantable orthopedic device, comprising:\n a first plate, having an outward-facing surface facing away from the device and an inward-facing surface opposed to the outward-facing surface, and having a plate longitudinal direction; a second plate opposed to the first plate; and a mechanism located between the first and second plates, the mechanism being capable of causing relative motion of the first and second plates toward or away from each other; wherein the first plate comprises, on the inward-facing surface of the first plate, a planar ramp surface bounded by two edges that are parallel to each other and generally coplanar with each other, the planar ramp surface having a ramp direction centerline midway between the two parallel edges, the centerline inclined at an oblique ramp angle with respect to the plate longitudinal direction and defining a ramp direction, and wherein the oblique ramp angle ramp angle is from 15 degrees to 75 degrees; wherein, on each side, the planar ramp surface adjoins respective first side surfaces distinct from the planar ramp surface; wherein the respective first side surfaces adjoin respective planar second surfaces distinct from the first side surfaces, the respective planar second surfaces being parallel to the planar ramp surface; wherein the respective second surfaces adjoin respective third surfaces distinct from the second side surfaces; wherein the planar ramp surface and the first side surfaces and the second surfaces and the third surfaces in combination engage and capture a geometric feature of the mechanism while permitting sliding of the geometric feature relative to the planar ramp surface along the ramp direction; wherein the first plate has a centrally located first opening therethrough and the second plate has a centrally located second opening therethrough and wherein a window region of space connecting the first opening and the second opening is not crossed by any object extending within the window region continuously from a proximal edge of the window region to a distal edge of the window region; wherein the second plate comprises, on an inward-facing surface of the second plate, a planar guide surface parallel to the plate longitudinal direction; and wherein the planar guide surface is bounded on respective sides by respective first and second grooves.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.28571
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15382261', '15382279', '15442449', '12779865', '12780744']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8004306072666721
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4691292298502456
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7673004695250295
- Mean Citation Score: 221.370792
- Max Citation Score: 248.44965
- Similarity Product: 204.50725180140137

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

Dataset: test