PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16003610
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["340", "010100"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to an interrogator, method of discerning metal and radio frequency identification (RFID) objects, and an interrogation system employing the same. In one embodiment, the interrogator includes a metal sensing subsystem configured to provide a first signal having a signature representing a presence of a metal object, and a RFID sensing subsystem configured to provide a second signal having a signature representing a presence of a RFID object. The interrogator also includes a control and processing subsystem configured to discern a presence of at least one of the metal and RFID objects from one of the first and second signals.

Claim (Index 17):
The method as recited in  claim 16 , further comprising:\n receiving a second signal from a second object at said antenna; and discerning a presence of said first object and said second object with said control and processing subsystem from said first signal and said second signal, respectively, as said portable interrogator moves with respect to said first object and said second object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17308
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14047254', '11799727', '11357225', '11801781', '10378043']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7690224074969559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5424896819953096
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7463691349467914
- Mean Citation Score: 379.473084
- Max Citation Score: 385.70038
- Similarity Product: 332.3820408838606

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

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