PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944645
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["340", "539320"]

Abstract:
Surgical articles, such as sponges, are provided in a pack which contains individual surgical articles having UHF RFID or other electronic labels which provide both (a) unique identification information for each article as well as (b) unique identification information for all articles in the pack. Prior to the surgical procedure, the labels are scanned and the identification information for all articles in the pack uploaded to a processor to create a list of available individual surgical articles. At the end of the surgical procedure, the surgical articles are collected and the electronic labels read and compared to the initial list to determine if there are any unaccounted individual surgical articles. The UHF RFID tag may then be used to determine a location of the unaccounted article outside the patient's body.

Claim (Index 31):
A method for locating a missing surgical article at the end of a surgical procedure, wherein a plurality of surgical articles have been provided for use in the surgical procedure and each of the plurality is affixed with a UHF RFID tag programmed with identification data unique to the particular surgical article, said method comprising:\n (a) reading the UHF RFID identification information of each surgical article removed from a patient after a surgery; (b) reading the UHF RFID identification information of each surgical article which was not used in the surgery; (c) compiling a list of surgical articles accounted for after the surgery by combing the UHF RFID identification information of each surgical article removed from a patient after the surgery with the UHF RFID identification information of each surgical article which was not used after the surgery; (d) comparing the list of accounted for surgical articles compiled in step (c) with a list of surgical articles available for the surgical procedure to generate a list of unaccounted surgical articles; and (e) determining the identification information for one of the unaccounted surgical articles, if any.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04286
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12237161', '11347490', '10873783', '12290169', '11376639']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6452440937667822
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5143094433481699
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6321506287249209
- Mean Citation Score: 219.815794
- Max Citation Score: 257.19913
- Similarity Product: 187.074476184302

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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