PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16414167
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["382", "128000"]

Abstract:
According to the invention, the process includes the steps of: a) taking a sagittal preoperative x-ray of the vertebral column of the patient to be treated, extending from the cervical vertebrae to the femoral heads; b) on that x-ray, identifying points on S1, S2, T12 et C7; c) depicting, on the said x-ray, curved segments beginning at the center of the plate of S1 et going to the center of the plate of C7; e) identifying, on that x-ray, the correction(s) to be made to the vertebral column, including the identification of posterior osteotomies to make; f) pivoting portions of said x-ray relative to other portions of that x-ray, according to osteotomies to be made; g) performing, on said x-ray, a displacement of the sagittal curvature segment extending over the vertebral segment to be corrected; h) from a straight vertebral rod (TV), producing the curvature of that rod according to the shape of said sagittal curvature segment in said displacement position.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for patient-specific spinal rod specification generation, the system comprising:\n an electronic interface configured for analyzing one or more preoperative images of a vertebral column of a patient, wherein the one or more preoperative images of the vertebral column of the patient is analyzed by:\n modifying a first portion of the one or more preoperative images of the vertebral column of the patient; \n modifying a second portion of the one or more preoperative images of the vertebral column of the patient; \n determining a first curvature of a first curved segment along the vertebral column of the patient on the modified one or more preoperative images, wherein the first curved segment comprises a portion of the vertebral column below a reference point; and \n determining a second curvature of a second curved segment along the vertebral column of the patient on the modified one or more preoperative images, wherein the second curved segment comprises a portion of the vertebral column above the reference point, wherein the first curvature is different from the second curvature; \n the electronic interface further configured for generating preoperative data instructions based at least in part on the first curvature of the first curved segment and the second curvature of the second curved segment, the generated preoperative data instructions configured for use by a manufacturing apparatus to manufacture a patient-specific spinal rod; and the electronic interface further configured for electronically transferring the generated preoperative data instructions to a manufacturing system for producing the patient-specific spinal rod comprising the first curvature and the second curvature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4375
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16414086', '16414109', '16038694', '15694227', '15469302']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4594319519880019
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6295066503816121
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4764394218273629
- Mean Citation Score: 559.8876899999998
- Max Citation Score: 578.3833
- Similarity Product: 559.940808390075

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

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