PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972352
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "267000"]

Abstract:
A bone screw extension assembly for use in placing a connecting rod percutaneously into tissue of a patient comprises a multi-axial bone screw and a screw extension releasably coupled to yoke of the bone screw. The screw extension includes coaxially disposed outer sleeve and inner sleeves that are rotatable relative to each other. A screw engaging member projects radially from the distal end of the inner sleeve and is configured to engage an extension coupling surface on the outer sleeve upon relative rotation of the inner and outer sleeves. A securement member including cooperative surfaces is defined adjacent the distal end of the inner and outer sleeves that is operable upon relative rotation of the inner sleeve and outer sleeve to radially secure the sleeves together to thereby maintain the engagement of the screw engaging member and the bone screw.

Claim (Index 11):
The anchor extension of  claim 1 , wherein each of said persuader coupling members comprises one of a rack or pinion coupling arrangement.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11765
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15242838', '14493453', '12818949', '13523266', '12818979']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.887357836093583
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5781839977262727
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.856440452256852
- Mean Citation Score: 598.4910940000002
- Max Citation Score: 626.1130400000002
- Similarity Product: 439.9807288466026

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