PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926051
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "250000"]

Abstract:
Articulating implant connectors and related methods are disclosed herein. Exemplary connectors can include first and second bodies that are rotatable relative to one another about a rotation axis and selectively lockable to resist or prevent such rotation. Each of the bodies can be configured to couple to a rod or other fixation component, and the connector can be used to lock first and second rods together even when the rods are obliquely angled with respect to one another.

Claim (Index 50):
A surgical method, comprising:\n inserting a first rod into a first rod-receiving recess of a first body of a connector, wherein the first body includes a hinge pin that extends laterally therefrom to a free end; inserting a second rod onto a rod seat formed in a saddle disposed in a second rod-receiving recess of a second body of the connector, wherein the hinge pin of the first body is inserted into a cavity formed in the second body and thereby coupling the first body of the connector to the second body of the connector; rotating the first body relative to the second body about a rotation axis defined by the hinge pin, such that a slot formed in the hinge pin rotates about a saddle protrusion extending distally from the saddle; moving a fastener with respect to the second body to secure the second rod within the second rod-receiving recess and thereby lock relative rotation of the first and second bodies about the rotation axis; and securing the first and second rods to an anatomy of a patient.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 86.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51852
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15471075', '15284587', '15158127', '15430188', '13570374']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7559818886026541
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.542709183389311
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7346546180813198
- Mean Citation Score: 299.311824
- Max Citation Score: 430.35706
- Similarity Product: 378.8249216710305

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

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