PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934634
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "279000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are minimally invasive systems and method for stabilizing the spine, while preserving a degree of spinal flexion and extension of the spine at the level of the stabilized vertebrae postoperatively. The systems and methods can include an expandable anchor and rod that span an intervertebral disc. The anchor can have interstices, and ends in two adjacent vertebral bodies. The system can also include a volume of bone cement media.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 2 , wherein expanding the distal end of the anchor within the interior of the second vertebral body and expanding the proximal end of the anchor within the interior of the first vertebral body comprises expanding a balloon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45283
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15299227', '14789805', '14559071', '10430841', '10125771']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.849569879951248
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5902905657729707
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8236419485334203
- Mean Citation Score: 440.80253000000016
- Max Citation Score: 551.1257
- Similarity Product: 510.225781411314

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