PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978886
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["600", "025000"]

Abstract:
A device, comprising a prosthesis including an external component configured to output a signal in response to an external stimulus and a skin penetrating component configured to communicatively transfer the signal at least partially beneath skin of the recipient, wherein the skin penetrating component is configured to extend into skin of the recipient and substantially lay above a surface of bone of a recipient in abutting contact thereto.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein:\n the action of inserting the skin penetrating component into the hole includes inserting a portion of the skin penetrating component into the hole; the portion inserted into the hole includes a cylindrical portion having a uniform outer diameter extending for a distance that is at least the distance of the thickness of the skin, and wherein the cylindrical portion is adjacent another portion that has a maximum outer diameter that is larger than the maximum outer diameter of the cylindrical portion, and wherein the component includes a distal end that is threaded; and the method further comprises applying a torque, using a tool, to the portion that has a maximum outer diameter that is larger, to screw the distal end into the bone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69048
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14549053', '14568822', '13485521', '13596477', '15163947']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5244004929538365
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5195780147272309
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5239182451311759
- Mean Citation Score: 264.27819400000004
- Max Citation Score: 341.3846
- Similarity Product: 216.68673559428453

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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