PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15995538
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "059000"]

Abstract:
External fixation systems, and methods for immobilizing joints or fractured bones. An external fixation system may include one or more clamp assemblies connected to one or more rod assemblies at polyaxial joints. Each rod assembly may be length adjustable, and may include a one-way locking mechanism to provisionally lock the length of the rod assembly, and additional locking mechanisms to permanently lock the length of the rod assembly. The system may be deployed pre-assembled as a unit to immobilize a joint or fracture. Another external fixation system further includes a spanning member extending transverse to the rod assemblies. Two or more external fixation systems may be deployed in a stacked configuration on one set of bone pins to immobilize two joints and/or fractures. The systems may be provided in kits including guiding instrumentation, bone pins and pin clamping assemblies for connecting the bone pins to the external fixation systems.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for external fixation of a limb, the limb having a first bone portion and a second bone portion, the method comprising:\n securing a first bone pin to the first bone portion; securing a second bone pin to the second bone portion; attaching a pre-assembled external fixation system to the first bone pin, the external fixation system comprising: first and second clamp assemblies, first rod assemblies, and a one-way locking mechanism; the first rod assembly joined to each of the first and second clamp assemblies, the first and second clamp assemblies at opposite longitudinal ends of the first rod assemblies; the first clamp assembly received over the first bone pin; attaching the external fixation system to the second bone pin, the second clamp assembly received over the second bone pin; applying tension to distract the first clamp assembly longitudinally away from the second clamp assembly to increase a length of the external fixation system between the first clamp assembly and the second clamp assembly; and releasing the tension on the first clamp assembly, wherein when the tension on the first clamp assembly is released the one-way locking mechanism automatically engages to prevent the length of the external fixation system from decreasing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07792
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15073264', '13961729', '14668282', '15892704', '14456407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7917269182346063
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5336323068520434
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.76591745709635
- Mean Citation Score: 362.493736
- Max Citation Score: 413.03085
- Similarity Product: 410.9443288119257

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

Dataset: test