PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16100430
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["340", "568100"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for monitoring drug-regimen compliance is disclosed. Systems in accordance with the present invention enable automatic monitoring of the state of medicine content of a blister card. Each tablet location on the blister card is operatively coupled with a different sensor that detects whether the tablet location is occupied and/or a dispensing event at a tablet location. In some embodiments, capacitive sensing is employed, where the capacitance of each sensor is based on the physical state of a dispensing region of the lidding film of the blister pack, which is located at the tablet location being monitored. Alternative sensing approaches are based on optical, acoustic, and tactile sensors that interrogate either the dispensing region at each tablet location or the tablets themselves to determine whether tablets have been dispensed. The sensors interface with a mobile app that provides the user instructions to help improve drug-regimen compliance.

Claim (Index 40):
A system that is operative for monitoring the state of a first blister card that includes a forming film, a lidding film, and a plurality of tablets that is arranged in a first arrangement, wherein each tablet of the plurality thereof is contained in a different reservoir of a plurality of reservoirs defined by the forming film and lidding film, wherein the system comprises:\n a first detection module comprising a first plurality of sensors arranged in the first arrangement such that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the first plurality of sensors and the first plurality of reservoirs, wherein each sensor of the first plurality thereof includes a tactile sensor that is operative for providing an electrical signal of a first plurality thereof based on a force applied to its respective reservoir; and an electronics module operative for providing a first output signal based on the first plurality of electrical signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 131.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79775
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15223779', '14879874', '15170121', '15364462', '09737327']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6587131517525668
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6189368665512401
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6547355232324341
- Mean Citation Score: 262.885084
- Max Citation Score: 543.639
- Similarity Product: 516.6118346064093

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

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