PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874351
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["623", "017150"]

Abstract:
A spinal fusion device that is expandable. The device features a top and bottom surface for engaging adjacent vertebrae, a hollow center for stacking of bone or bone growth material, and a slidable mechanism with grooves for expanding or unexpanding compacting the device.

Claim (Index 1):
A spinal fusion device comprising:\n an upper member having a top surface for contacting vertebra and outer sidewalls depending therefrom having two parallel sloped slots in a first direction; a lower member having a bottom surface for contacting vertebra and inner sidewalls depending therefrom having two parallel sloped slots in a second opposite direction than said upper member, said inner sidewalls arranged to fit inboard said outer sidewalls; a housing having a front wall, a rear wall and a first side wall forming a mirror image of a second side wall, said front wall having a centrally disposed aperture for receipt of an adjustment screw and at least one offset aperture for receipt of a bone screw, said first and second side walls including a positioning slot; an actuator having a body member with a through-hole, said body member having a first end wall with projecting first and second protruding members for slidable insertion in said first side wall slot of said housing and a second end wall with projecting first and second protruding members for slidable insertion in said second side wall slot of said housing forming a mirror image of said first slot; an adjustment screw engaging said through-hole; wherein said device is placed between adjacent vertebra with a bone screw inserted into said housing offset aperture, securing said device to the vertebra, whereby said adjustment screw is rotated to move said actuator, displacing said upper and lower members.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.30556
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14642992', '15664891', '14294889', '12967317', '14836678']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7803642954257793
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.497909457187258
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7521188116019272
- Mean Citation Score: 265.268498
- Max Citation Score: 322.98984
- Similarity Product: 265.5410119211769

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

Dataset: test