PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742386
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "070000"]

Abstract:
A sliding plate variable angle locking mechanism includes a bone plate, a first sliding plate, a locking ring and a bone screw. The bone plate includes a plate cavity, a bone plate surface and a shelf. The plate hole defines a plate hole diameter. The first sliding plate a central hole that defines a sliding plate hole diameter. The sliding plate hole diameter is smaller than the plate hole diameter. The first sliding plate is positioned in the plate cavity in an assembled configuration. The locking ring is movably mountable to the bone plate. The locking ring hole diameter is greater than the sliding plate hole diameter. The bone screw head diameter is greater than the sliding plate hole diameter. The head threads are configured to form internal threads in the central hole of the first sliding plate when the bone screw is driven into the first sliding plate.

Claim (Index 19):
The locking mechanism of  claim 12 , wherein the shelf is formed in a plate cavity adjacent the plate hole.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.375
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15160604', '12932970', '14827940', '11971358', '11142702']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8380476433623619
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4965951958057626
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.803902398606702
- Mean Citation Score: 291.19956599999995
- Max Citation Score: 330.18274
- Similarity Product: 273.4841245953882

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