PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16151975
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
Method and apparatus are disclosed for distracting tissue and particularly spinal tissue. The device and method may include insertion of at least one elongated member and an augmenting member to form a structure between the tissues to be distraction, such that a dimensional aspect of the structure is augmented upon movement of the augmenting structure.

Claim (Index 104):
A method of assembling a structure in vivo between two body tissue layers, comprising:\n delivering a first elongated member between two body tissue layers in a first configuration having a height in a direction extending generally from one of said body tissue layers to the other body tissue layer, wherein the first elongated member includes a top portion, a bottom portion, and a plurality of deformable connection members extending between the top portion and the bottom portion; and inserting at least a portion of an augmenting elongated member into the first elongated member between the top portion and the bottom portion so as to deform the plurality of deformable connection members and move the first elongated member from the first configuration to a second configuration having a greater height than the height of the first elongated member in the first configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.34884
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15297634', '12035298', '15994050', '13869075', '14613551']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8584232390705032
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5606692445181299
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8286478396152659
- Mean Citation Score: 483.22366
- Max Citation Score: 491.77982
- Similarity Product: 436.373242584424

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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