PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968393
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["600", "344000"]

Abstract:
A sensor cover according to embodiments of the disclosure is capable of being used with a non-invasive physiological sensor, such as a pulse oximetry sensor. Certain embodiments of the sensor cover reduce or eliminate false readings from the sensor when the sensor is not in use, for example, by blocking a light detecting component of a pulse oximeter sensor when the pulse oximeter sensor is active but not in use. Further, embodiments of the sensor cover can prevent damage to the sensor. Additionally, embodiments of the sensor cover prevent contamination of the sensor.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of providing a sensor cover for a noninvasive physiological sensor, the method comprising:\n providing a sensor cover comprising:\n an opaque portion attachable over a sensing portion of the sensor, the opaque portion configured to prevent the sensing portion from measuring a physiological variable; and \n a connector for attaching the sensor cover to a sensor; \n attaching the sensor cover to the sensor, the sensor cover removable from the sensor,\n wherein the sensor is an adhesive sensor having a flexible substrate and an adhesive layer, and \n wherein the opaque portion is an elongate protrusion integrated with the flexible substrate, wherein the connector is slot disposed on the flexible substrate for receiving the protrusion, and wherein placing the protrusion within the slot attaches the protrusion over the sensing portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15046954', '14512945', '13919692', '15864389', '12782651']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4816536920603051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4865824603503355
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4821465688893082
- Mean Citation Score: 214.137442
- Max Citation Score: 249.35388
- Similarity Product: 199.73626248045449

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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