PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908764
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["600", "424000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a system and method for performing tissue, preferably bone tissue manipulation. The system and method may include implanting markers on opposite sides of a bone, fractured bone or tissue to facilitate bone or tissue manipulation, preferably in-situ closed fracture reduction. The markers are preferably configured to be detected by one or more devices, such as, for example, a detection device so that the detection device can determine the relative relationship of the markers. The markers may also be capable of transmitting and receiving signals. An image may be captured of the bone or tissue and the attached markers. From the captured image, the orientation of each marker relative to the bone fragment may be determined. Next, the captured image may be manipulated in a virtual or simulated environment until a desired restored orientation has been achieved. The orientation of the markers in the desired restored orientation may then be determined. The desired relationship between markers may then be programmed into, for example, the detection device. Next, actual physical reduction and/or manipulation of the bone may begin. During the manipulation procedure, the orientation of the markers may be continuously monitored and when the markers substantially align with the virtual or simulated orientation of the markers in the desired restored orientation, an indicator signal is transmitted.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for performing tissue manipulation, comprising the steps of:\n implanting first and second markers on first and second portions of tissue, respectively; capturing an image of the first and second portions of tissue with the first and second markers attached thereto; merging the image with orientation data obtained from the first and second markers; manipulating the image of the first and second portions of tissue in a simulated environment to a desired orientation; determining positions of the first and second markers in the desired orientation; programming a device with the desired orientation; determining, with the device, a current marker orientation, the device generating an indicator signal when the first and second markers are in the desired orientation; manipulating the first and second portions of tissue, until the indicator signal is generated by the device indicating the desired orientation has been substantially achieved; and after the desired orientation is achieved, implanting a fixation device to fix the first and second portions of tissue in the desired orientation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14743895', '11838093', '10999665', '15362839', '15389356']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4898539072383112
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.535529234424811
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4944214399569612
- Mean Citation Score: 262.918478
- Max Citation Score: 397.56555
- Similarity Product: 373.03936285541647

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

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