PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027498
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["623", "017120"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a next generation, closed profile, total disc replacement device with mechanical features designed to sustain, restrain and guide the larger motions required to preserve normal mechanical motion, while at the same time, providing a flexion component to guide and restrain the finer motions reached at the extremes of the mechanical motion preservation components.

Claim (Index 9):
The device according to  claim 8  wherein the device allows six independent motion degrees-of-freedom between said top endplate and said bottom endplate without separation of either said first spherical joint (ball-and-socket) or said second planar joint within the device either prior to or following device implantation, such that said device maintains functional and positional integrity throughout normal operation, including in zero gravity, wherein mechanics of the device allow large mechanical motions of rotation, compression, and translation, while flexibility of the nucleus allows small flexure motions for all degrees of freedom when the joint is at one or more joint stops and wherein a Ring-Joint-Stop is created by mating together an anterior and a posterior Ring-Joint-Stop component to thereby create an enclosing aperture, or orifice which is too narrow to allow the nucleus dome pass through, resulting in assembly by press-fit, laser weld, or both into a raceway of said top endplate, including at least one element to limit axial rotation within said raceway.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43182
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14505972', '13042515', '12258977', '14433494', '12258961']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7885625693797521
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4813648533652992
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7578427977783069
- Mean Citation Score: 185.239444
- Max Citation Score: 195.68517
- Similarity Product: 121.4842264003837

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

Dataset: test