PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878601
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of inserting an implant comprising providing an expandable vertebral implant. The method further may comprise providing an angling inserter tool. The angling inserter tool comprises a handle portion, a base portion, and a tip assembly, the base portion being disposed between the handle portion and the tip assembly. The method further may comprise distally advancing a central shaft of the tip assembly with rotation into an opening in the expandable vertebral implant to secure the angling inserter tool to the expandable vertebral implant. The method further may comprise positioning the expandable vertebral implant in a patient's spine. The method further may comprise for causing the tip assembly to angulate with respect to a longitudinal axis of the angling inserter tool, wherein the internal shaft is coaxial with an outer cylinder of the base portion.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein the implant engagement gear is configured to engage a gear member on the expandable implant such that when the implant engagement gear is rotated, the expandable implant is configured to either expand or contract.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53333
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14281458', '15139684', '13421411', '13440129', '14819778']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8595707764403709
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5523328059444982
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8288469793907838
- Mean Citation Score: 435.929652
- Max Citation Score: 480.02545
- Similarity Product: 386.59628125347785

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