PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16148683
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["340", "573100"]

Abstract:
A system and method for detecting personal protective equipment (PPE) compliance is disclosed. Personal protective equipment, such as gloves, gowns, masks, protective eyewear, may be used to limit transmission of illness either from the patient to the care giver or vice-versa. Compliance with PPE is important in various contexts, including hospital settings, home settings, work settings, and school settings. For example, a healthcare provider may wear a wristband, which may interact with a stationary controller that is associated with an entrance and/or an exit to an area for the patient (such as the stationary controller integrated with or proximate to a hand cleaning agent dispenser) proximate to the entrance and/or exit. The interaction may be used to determine whether the healthcare provider has complied with PPE protocols. Further, the system may be used to train healthcare providers or others in PPE hygiene. In addition, the wristband may be used to check for compliance of a plurality of protocols, such as PPE protocols and hand hygiene (HH) protocols. In this way, the system may be used for safely interacting with patients in order to reduce cross-contamination.

Claim (Index 22):
The mobile wearable electronic device of  claim 21 , wherein the plurality of PPE indicators comprise a glove indicator, a mask indicator, a gown indicator, a protective eyewear indicator;\n wherein the memory is configured to store glove movements associated with the glove indicator, mask movements associated with the mask indicator, gown movements associated with the gown indicator, and protective eyewear movements associated with the protective eyewear indicator; wherein the controller is configured to receive, from the stationary controller, the specific PPE indicators for interacting with the specific patient, the specific PPE indicators consisting of a subset of the glove indicator, the mask indicator, the gown indicator, and the protective eyewear indicator; responsive to the controller receiving the specific PPE indicators for interacting with the specific patient, the controller is configured to:\n check, based on the specific PPE indicators and for less than all of the glove movements, the mask movements, the gown movements, and the protective eyewear movements, whether movements of the person comply with a subset of the glove movements, the mask movements, the gown movements, and the protective eyewear movements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11881
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15946537', '15544632', '15766757', '13507189', '12787097']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7328733952626691
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5360325943476613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7131893151711683
- Mean Citation Score: 179.13702
- Max Citation Score: 339.5966200000001
- Similarity Product: 203.7486285070277

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

Dataset: test