PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16151975
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
Method and apparatus are disclosed for distracting tissue and particularly spinal tissue. The device and method may include insertion of at least one elongated member and an augmenting member to form a structure between the tissues to be distraction, such that a dimensional aspect of the structure is augmented upon movement of the augmenting structure.

Claim (Index 107):
The method of  claim 104 , wherein said inserting said at least a portion of the augmenting elongated member includes causing at least one formation of the augmenting elongated member to contact an inner surface of the first elongated member so as to retain the augmenting elongated member in position within the first elongated member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.34884
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15297634', '12035298', '15994050', '13869075', '14613551']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8776646374000033
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.534518770858711
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8433500507458741
- Mean Citation Score: 483.22366
- Max Citation Score: 491.77982
- Similarity Product: 284.8464780907547

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