PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16151975
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["623", "017160"]

Abstract:
Method and apparatus are disclosed for distracting tissue and particularly spinal tissue. The device and method may include insertion of at least one elongated member and an augmenting member to form a structure between the tissues to be distraction, such that a dimensional aspect of the structure is augmented upon movement of the augmenting structure.

Claim (Index 103):
The tissue distraction device of  claim 87 , wherein the plurality of deformable connection members are configured to bias the first elongated member to the first configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.34884
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15297634', '12035298', '15994050', '13869075', '14613551']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8746904821484669
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5503395515513162
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8422553890887519
- Mean Citation Score: 483.22366
- Max Citation Score: 491.77982
- Similarity Product: 369.0065181888199

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