PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15922782
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "267000"]

Abstract:
A universal mono to poly axial pedicle screw and method of securing and manipulating vertebrae of a patient spine using a universal mono to poly axial pedicle screw.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of securing and manipulating vertebrae of a patient spine using a universal mono to poly axial pedicle screw, wherein the universal pedicle screw comprises;\n a screw shaft, a screw head, a deformable member located around the screw shaft and below the screw head, a U-shaped tulip portion of the screw; wherein the tulip portion comprises a narrow conical end and an open end, wherein the narrow end surrounds the screw head and the deformable member and wherein the open end has interior opposing threads for receiving a threaded locking cap, and wherein the tulip portion of the screw further comprises a cradle with vertical sides, a first concave surface and a second concave surface opposite the first concave surface, wherein the first concave surface receives the screw head and the second concave surface receives a securing rod; the method comprising inserting the universal pedicle screw into a vertebra, placing the securing rod on the cradle, manipulating the vertebra, tightening the locking cap, pulling the tulip over the deformable collar, further tightening the locking cap, and orienting the tulip perpendicular to the securing rod.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52632
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12629585', '13135359', '14072600', '15370948', '15615222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7845613115283124
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4770504695534118
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7538102273308224
- Mean Citation Score: 271.05926
- Max Citation Score: 278.14844
- Similarity Product: 232.6003252032948

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