PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16270375
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["128", "200230"]

Abstract:
Security features for an electronic metered-dose smart inhaler, mobile app, and cloud-based software system that validates users and inhaler use protocols, such as medical prescriptions and clinical trial regimens. The smart inhaler interacts with a mobile app to control and monitor per-dose usage and capture efficacy results and feedback from medical patients and clinical trial participants for review by prescribing physicians, clinical trial administrators, medicine formulators and artificial intelligence. While the smart inhaler system is well suited for aerosol medical marijuana products, it may be used to deliver and conduct clinical trials on any type of product suitable for aerosol administration including other types of medication and non-medical products, such as nicotine, herbal products, pain killers, sleep aids, dietary stimulants, dietary suppressants, etc. Many of the system-based innovations are not limited to aerosol inhalers, and may be applied more widely to other types of in-home, patient-administered products.

Claim (Index 1):
An electronic metered-dose inhaler system including security features comprising a cartridge, a pump unit, and a mobile app, wherein:\n the cartridge comprises:\n a canister containing pressurized contents for aerosol dispensing without burning or vaporizing the contents of the canister, \n an electronically readable cartridge memory storing security information comprising contents information about the contents of the canister, \n a mouthpiece unit holding the canister against a spring biasing the canister in a retraction direction allowing the canister to be reciprocated between the retraction direction and an opposing insertion direction to dispense a portion of the contents of the canister through the mouthpiece unit each time the canister is reciprocated, \n wherein the mouthpiece unit further comprises a reusable clip for removably attaching the cartridge to the pump unit in an operational configuration with the canister positioned for reciprocation by the pump unit; \n the pump unit comprises:\n a pump actuator positioned to reciprocate the cannister to dispense the contents of the canister through the mouthpiece unit when the cartridge is attached to the pump unit in the operational configuration; \n a battery powering a microprocessor, a memory, a wireless radio, and a cartridge memory reader operative for reading the cartridge memory to obtain the security information when the when the cartridge is attached to the pump unit in the operational configuration; \n wherein the memory is operative for storing the security information and associated security procedures; \n wherein the microprocessor is operative for unlocking the pump actuator to allow operation of the pump actuator in accordance with the security procedures and security information, and for locking the pump actuator to prevent operation of the pump actuator that is not in accordance with the security procedures and security information; \n wherein the mobile app is configured to run on a mobile device associated with a user configured to pair and communicate with the microprocessor of the pump unit, and wherein the mobile app is configured to execute computer instructions comprising:\n receiving additional security information from a cloud-based system over a network, \n downloading the additional security information to the pump unit over a wireless link with the wireless radio of the pump unit, and \n causing the user's mobile device to display security notifications in accordance with the additional security information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62745
- Patent Class: 128.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10345480', '11223625', '10970154', '14054638', '14092810']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5891442576980227
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4723776178801604
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5774675937162366
- Mean Citation Score: 185.46737
- Max Citation Score: 187.779
- Similarity Product: 129.71546321761608

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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