PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16153769
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["029", "896100"]

Abstract:
A system for fixing a prosthetic component to an anchor implanted in the bone of a patient. The prosthetic component includes a fixing channel and an installation channel. The fixing channel opens to an engagement collar configured to engage with a bone anchor. The installation channel opens from an outer surface of the prosthetic and communicates with the fixing channel. The installation channel permits placement of a fastener therethrough into the fixing channel to secure the prosthetic to the bone anchor. The axes of the fixing channel and the installation channel intersect at a point which lies within the radius of a fastener seat which is configured to engage a head of the fastener when the fastener is placed into the fixing channel.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 8 , further including:\n machining at least a second fixing channel into the anchor interface side of the prosthetic component, wherein the, or each further fixing channel at the anchor interface side defines at least a further collar of the prosthetic component configured to be inserted below a bone line into the anchor, and wherein the, or each further fixing channel terminates internally of the component; machining at least a further installation channel from an outer surface of the prosthetic component that meets the, or each further fixing channel internally of the component; and machining at least a further fastener seat through the, or each further installation channel at the juncture of the, or each further fixing channel and the, or each further installation channel, including profiling the, or each further fastener seat to have a radius of curvature that is substantially the same as a spherical or part spherical head of at least a further fastener adapted to be accommodated on the, or each further fastener seat through the, or each further fixing channel; wherein the, or each further fixing channel has a fixing axis that intersects an installation axis of the, or each further installation channel at a point that lies within the radius of curvature of the, or each fastener seat.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52941
- Patent Class: 29.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15001873', '14519717', '15396785', '15018846', '15453219']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8729840037071125
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4932874895914359
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8350143522955449
- Mean Citation Score: 191.06939
- Max Citation Score: 211.3512
- Similarity Product: 144.2303143401146

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