PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859883
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["128", "899000"]

Abstract:
A medical device communications network comprises a plurality of medical devices including either or both of a first number of surgical instruments and a second number of implants configured for subcutaneous implantation in a biological body. A corresponding plurality of wireless communication circuits are each mounted to a different one of the plurality of medical devices. Each of the plurality of wireless communication circuits is configured to broadcast medical device information relating to the medical device to which it is mounted and to receive information relating to any other of the plurality of medical devices. The network may or may not include a master wireless communications circuit configured to receive the medical device information broadcast by any of the plurality of slave wireless communication circuits and to broadcast the information relating to any other of the plurality of medical devices.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of performing an orthopaedic surgical procedure, the method comprising:\n introducing a surgical instrument configured for use in surgically preparing a patient's bone to receive a medical implant configured for implantation in the patient's body into a medical device communications network, introducing the medical implant into the medical device communications network, monitoring a status of a human perceptible indicator operable to change in response to the surgical instrument and the medical implant being incompatible with each other, and removing at least one of the surgical instrument and the medical implant in response to the status of the human perceptible indicator changing, wherein the human perceptible indicator is one of a visual indicator and an audible indicator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48276
- Patent Class: 128.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13025402', '15426657', '11024905', '11016295', '11049805']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6151235655645473
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5219400665439845
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.605805215662491
- Mean Citation Score: 264.619092
- Max Citation Score: 353.85358
- Similarity Product: 237.7948542920375

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

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