PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897486
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["606", "266000"]

Abstract:
A pivotal bone anchor assembly includes a shank sub-assembly comprising a shank and a coupler, and a receiver sub-assembly comprising a receiver having a bore with a bottom opening and a snap-fit assembly proximate the bottom opening comprising an insert, a retainer ring positioned within an expansion chamber, and a positioner configured to hold the retainer ring in position. The shank sub-assembly is uploaded through the receiver bottom opening such that the positioner is pushed up into a holder chamber and the retainer rings engages a circumferential locking groove of the coupler to secure the shank sub-assembly with the receiver sub-assembly with a snap-fit connection.

Claim (Index 4):
The bone anchor assembly of  claim 1 , wherein, when the retainer ring is caused to engage between the expansion chamber of the receiver and the circumferential locking groove on the outer surface of the collet, decoupling of the receiver sub-assembly and shank sub-assembly is inhibited.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15629709', '15521163', '15239515', '15420803', '14674517']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8320454357386695
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5828797595325156
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8071288681180541
- Mean Citation Score: 340.353698
- Max Citation Score: 505.29813
- Similarity Product: 501.7721720951112

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

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