PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16194312
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["434", "247000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to system and methods for assessing and improving an infant's oral feeding skills. The system comprises a “smart” baby feeding device comprising an instrumented baby bottle with a battery-powered monitoring module wirelessly connected to a remote device (e.g., smart phone, tablet, laptop, PC, data processing device). The purpose of the remote device is to monitor (in real time) and measure the frequency and quality of feedings of new-born babies to help optimize feeding development by providing real-time feeding performance information back to the caregiver. The information collected is of assistance in minimizing feeding difficulties and correcting feeding deficiencies.

Claim (Index 29):
A feeding system for feeding a person with a nutrient liquid, and for assessing the person's oral feeding skills, comprising:\n a feeding container containing the liquid; sensor means, operatively associated with the feeding container, for measuring one or more parameters of liquid ingested by the person during a feeding session; and a computer processing unit (CPU) programmed to monitor and analyze sensor data generated by the sensor means; wherein the CPU is programmed for calculating an Oral Feeding Skill (OFS) level by comparing the one or more parameters of the liquid ingested by the person during the feeding session to one or more preselected cutoff values; wherein an OFS scale defines a range of feeding performance characteristics; and wherein the sensor means comprises an airflow rate Micro-Electrical-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) sensor chip for measuring a flow rate (ml/min) of air passing through an air vent hole disposed in a sidewall of the feeding bottle; and wherein the CPU is programmed to set a flow rate of liquid leaving the bottle through an attached nipple to be equal to a flow rate of air flowing into the air vent hole during feeding.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57333
- Patent Class: 434.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15412027', '14416039', '15408273', '14549519', '14709237']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3043935589335589
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6607681821883941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3400310212590425
- Mean Citation Score: 327.59374
- Max Citation Score: 768.8047
- Similarity Product: 625.1749330426453

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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