PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891346
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["606", "062000"]

Abstract:
Devices and methods for repairing bone fractures are described herein. A pin directing device for steering a flexible bone screw is disclosed. A fluted entry tool for penetrating into cancellous bone without penetrating the far cortex of the bone is disclosed. A flexible bone screw having a rotational position marker positioned thereon at a terminal twenty-five percent of the shaft is disclosed. A flexible bone screw comprising at least eighty percent cold work hardened alloy is disclosed. A pin bending clamp having a transverse hole in the jaws is disclosed. A flexible bone screw with a cortex climbing thread portion at the tip, which is helicoid, is also disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
A threaded orthopedic device, comprising:\n a flexible shaft; and a threaded portion that is disposed on one end of the shaft, wherein the threaded portion includes a tip region with a tip thread, a body portion with a body thread that has a major diameter that is equal to or greater than the largest major diameter of the tip thread, and a transition point disposed where an edge surface of the tip thread meets an edge surface of the body thread, and wherein the tip region is disposed within a cone that is 1) centered on a longitudinal axis of the shaft and 2) passes through the transition point.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81538
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11951282', '15268439', '14462494', '15268429', '14265662']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7629076960073294
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4716923221942858
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7337861586260251
- Mean Citation Score: 220.743944
- Max Citation Score: 239.45352000000003
- Similarity Product: 180.68864046755792

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test