PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16253137
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["340", "010100"]

Abstract:
A system and method for tracking medical articles located in a container includes a hybrid isolated magnetic dipole (“IMD”) probe that provides an activating EM energy RF field having a magnetic near field at least as great as the electric near field, both of which cover the entire interior of the container. The probe comprises a main element having capacitive coupling across at least one slot and spacing above a ground plane to thereby form an isolated electric field and an equally strong or stronger magnetic field that fills the interior of the container to activate RFID tags therein. A dual system is provided for larger containers. A dynamic impedance tuning system controls the probe impedance for increased efficiency in transferring power to the interior of the container. Beam steering is provided with the IMD probe.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for tracking medical articles stored in the interior volume of a container, the interior volume of the container having a size selected to receive a plurality of medical articles each of which has a wireless identification device associated therewith that has individual identification data, and each wireless identification device configured to respond with identification data upon receiving activation energy, the method comprising:\n shielding the interior volume of the container from the passage of electromagnetic (\u201cEM\u201d) energy from the passage of electromagnetic energy both into and out of the interior volume, whereby the interior volume is isolated to keep activating RF energy within the container so that RFID tags located outside the container are not activated and read; injecting activating radio frequency (\u201cRF\u201d) energy into the interior volume in an energy pattern with an injection probe located within the EM shielding to fill the interior volume with an EM field, wherein the injection probe comprises a main conductive element having capacitive coupling across at least one slot of the main conductive element thereby forming an isolated electric field that fills the interior of the container, and wherein the main conductive element is located in relation to a ground plane to thereby form a robust magnetic field that is orthogonal to the electric field and that also fills the interior of the container; delivering activating RF energy to the injection probe from a signal source; controlling the signal source to deliver the activating energy to the injection probe for injection into the interior volume, and controlling the signal source to stop delivering activating energy to the injection probe, whereby responsive identification signals from activated identification devices located in the interior volume can be received.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65909
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15785389', '14752837', '16154694', '15838310', '14214284']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7372232203884226
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6245576073784621
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7259566590874266
- Mean Citation Score: 418.942318
- Max Citation Score: 555.7376
- Similarity Product: 524.2767047729493

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

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