PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16290656
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["340", "568100"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for monitoring drug-regimen compliance is disclosed. Systems in accordance with the present invention enable automatic monitoring of the state of medicine content of a blister card. Each tablet location on the blister card is operatively coupled with a different sensor that detects whether the tablet location is occupied and/or a dispensing event at a tablet location. In some embodiments, capacitive sensing is employed, where the capacitance of each sensor is based on the physical state of a dispensing region of the lidding film of the blister pack, which is located at the tablet location being monitored. Alternative sensing approaches are based on optical, acoustic, and tactile sensors that interrogate either the dispensing region at each tablet location or the tablets themselves to determine whether tablets have been dispensed. The sensors interface with a mobile app that provides the user instructions to help improve drug-regimen compliance.

Claim (Index 50):
The method of  claim 43  wherein the detection module is provided such that a first sensor of the plurality thereof is a tactile sensor that includes a first capacitor having first and second electrodes separated by a first separation, and wherein the first sensor is disposed on the lid such that, when the lid is in its closed position, the first separation has a first magnitude when the first tablet is in the first reservoir and a second magnitude when the first tablet is not in the first reservoir.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79775
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16179287', '16100430', '15223779', '16156603', '14879874']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8018285903854661
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.609861476181009
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7826318789650204
- Mean Citation Score: 452.7972959999999
- Max Citation Score: 553.2551
- Similarity Product: 360.8886975544095

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

Dataset: test