PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16404567
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["340", "010100"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are disclosed for improving RFID coverage using an antenna array having an adaptive antenna beam. The apparatus includes an RFID reader including an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. Subsets of the plurality of antenna elements are selectively activating in order to direct an antenna beam to communicate with at least one RFID tag. The method includes transmitting an interrogation signal from an antenna array by activating one or more subsets of a plurality of antenna elements forming the antenna array. In this way, the interrogation signal is directed thereby improving antenna coverage.

Claim (Index 3):
The RFID reader of  claim 1 , further comprising a controller coupled to the beam forming processor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.875
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15628211', '13329438', '13563010', '11356887', '10959633']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6813481543888299
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4976522178595123
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6629785607358981
- Mean Citation Score: 214.379598
- Max Citation Score: 282.70975
- Similarity Product: 276.540683763668

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