PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16148683
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["340", "573100"]

Abstract:
A system and method for detecting personal protective equipment (PPE) compliance is disclosed. Personal protective equipment, such as gloves, gowns, masks, protective eyewear, may be used to limit transmission of illness either from the patient to the care giver or vice-versa. Compliance with PPE is important in various contexts, including hospital settings, home settings, work settings, and school settings. For example, a healthcare provider may wear a wristband, which may interact with a stationary controller that is associated with an entrance and/or an exit to an area for the patient (such as the stationary controller integrated with or proximate to a hand cleaning agent dispenser) proximate to the entrance and/or exit. The interaction may be used to determine whether the healthcare provider has complied with PPE protocols. Further, the system may be used to train healthcare providers or others in PPE hygiene. In addition, the wristband may be used to check for compliance of a plurality of protocols, such as PPE protocols and hand hygiene (HH) protocols. In this way, the system may be used for safely interacting with patients in order to reduce cross-contamination.

Claim (Index 24):
The mobile wearable electronic device of  claim 17 , wherein a first stationary controller associated with a first patient area for a first patient, interaction with the first patient according to a first PPE protocol, the first PPE protocol comprising a first set of personal protective equipment for a healthcare provider to wear;\n a second stationary controller associated with a second patient area for a second patient, interaction with the second patient according to a second PPE protocol, the second PPE protocol comprising a second set of personal protective equipment for the healthcare provider to wear, the second PPE protocol being different from the first PPE protocol such that the PPE for the healthcare provider to wear when interacting with the second patient is different from the PPE for the healthcare provider to wear when interacting with the first patient; wherein the mobile wearable electronic device is configured to receive, from the first stationary controller, an indication of the first PPE protocol; wherein, responsive to receiving the indication of the first PPE protocol, the controller is configured to check movements of the person to determine whether the person has complied with the first PPE protocol; wherein the mobile wearable electronic device is configured to receive, from the second stationary controller, an indication of the second PPE protocol; and wherein, responsive to receiving the indication of the second PPE protocol, the controller is configured to check the movements of the person to determine whether the person has complied with the second PPE protocol.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11881
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15946537', '15544632', '15766757', '13507189', '12787097']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6781989855058125
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5362430585676907
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6640033928120003
- Mean Citation Score: 179.13702
- Max Citation Score: 339.5966200000001
- Similarity Product: 208.3611887422372

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

Dataset: test