PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923972
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["623", "013140"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a system and method of knee ligament balancing for knee replacement procedures. The disclosure provides a system of components to implant to achieve ligament balancing. In addition, instruments and methods are provided to achieve the desired balance of the ligaments before final fixation.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for load balancing of a knee joint between a tibia and a femur in knee replacement procedures, the method comprising:\n inserting, in the knee joint, a knee replacement device including:\n a tibial prosthetic component having a first contact surface replacing a portion of the tibia; and \n a femoral prosthetic component having a second contact surface replacing a portion of the femur and configured for contacting the first contact surface; \n evaluating balance in the knee joint, wherein the evaluating includes evaluating engagement between the tibial prosthetic component and the femoral prosthetic component; identifying a loose ligament that is too lax to properly function to support the knee joint after insertion of the knee replacement device; anchoring a first end portion of an elongate ligament support member to the tibia; extending the elongate ligament support member along the loose ligament; applying tension to the elongate ligament support member to balance the engagement between the tibial prosthetic component and the femoral prosthetic component; and fixing an opposite, second end portion of the elongate ligament support member to the femur to maintain the tension of the elongate ligament support member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48571
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15670901', '14816939', '12413099', '12134713', '10727290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8377659266190767
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5757233911410395
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.811561673071273
- Mean Citation Score: 394.04316400000016
- Max Citation Score: 535.8106700000002
- Similarity Product: 459.4999108598603

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

Dataset: test