PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871973
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["606", "250000"]

Abstract:
A tulip assembly configured to be coupled to a screw head having a first diameter includes a housing, wherein the housing defines an inner diameter configured to engage the first diameter of the screw head. The exemplary inner diameter of the housing being smaller than the first diameter of the screw head.

Claim (Index 10):
An implant assembly comprising:\n a pedicle screw comprising a head having a head diameter and an elongate threaded portion coupled to and extending from the head; and a tulip assembly comprising:\n a housing defining an engagement orifice and a bore extending into the housing from the engagement orifice, the engagement orifice and the bore having a fixed shape and an inner diameter that is smaller than the head diameter of the pedicle screw; \n wherein head-first introduction of the head of the pedicle screw through the engagement orifice and into the bore with the screw head in the bore creates a compression fit between the housing and the head of the pedicle screw due to the head diameter of the pedicle screw being larger than the inner diameter of the engagement orifice and the bore.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89655
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11952709', '12056571', '11543348', '11327132', '11726868']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7974398566292277
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5129935982973334
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7689952307960383
- Mean Citation Score: 281.670484
- Max Citation Score: 375.9675
- Similarity Product: 359.59500630140303

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