PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16278653
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["235", "385000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for monitoring the inventory of a medical storage container such as a tray that has a required inventory of medical articles. An enclosure is used to isolate, scan, and take an inventory of the tray or other container of medical articles. The tray and each of the medical articles in the tray have RFID tags. The enclosure having a size differing from the size needed for a resonant frequency at the RFID frequency of operation of the tags. A probe is used to create a robust electromagnetic field standing wave of constructive interference in the enclosure and a program compares the scanned present inventory of the tray to the required inventory database and indicates any differences. Expired and recalled articles and substitutes for recalled articles are identified.

Claim (Index 4):
A method of re-supplying a medical container by reading a data carrier that is attached to the medical container and a data carrier attached to a medical article located in the storage container to manage the inventory of the storage container, the data carrier having a specified operation frequency f 1  in response to which the data carrier provides identification data, the medical container and medical article being located within an internal storage area of a metallic enclosure, the metallic enclosure further having electrically conductive walls that completely surround the internal storage area and any medical article with associated data carrier placed therein, the metallic enclosure having a natural frequency of resonance f 2  which is a frequency other than the specified operation frequency f 1  of the data carrier, the method comprising:\n positioning a storage container within the internal storage area of the enclosure, the storage container having a data carrier identifying the container, the container containing a medical article with an associated data carrier identifying that medical article, both data carriers being responsive to EM at frequency f 1  but not operationally responsive to frequency f 2 ; injecting electromagnetic (\u201cEM\u201d) energy of a frequency f 1  into the metallic enclosure from a location within the enclosure, the injecting location being selected in relation to the metallic walls so that reflected energy of frequency f 1  within the metallic enclosure is in phase at the location of injection to thereby optimize power transfer of EM energy at frequency f 1  into the enclosure; actively matching an impedance associated with injecting the EM energy into the metallic enclosure to more closely match an impedance of the metallic enclosure at frequency f 1 ; receiving identification data provided by a data carrier located within the internal storage area of the metallic enclosure by means of an antenna disposed within the metallic enclosure; storing a predetermined required inventory list of the storage container on a non-volatile memory; receiving the identification data of the storage container and the identification data of the article in the storage container by a processor, locating the storage container predetermined required inventory list in the memory by the processor through the identification of the storage container, locating the details of the medical article in the storage container by the processor in the memory through the identification data of the medical article, and comparing the details of the medical article against that inventory list of the storage container to manage the inventory of the container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98571
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14214284', '15838310', '14943010', '14853944', '14210287']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7410978396316472
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6271667965025696
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7297047353187395
- Mean Citation Score: 546.0411660000002
- Max Citation Score: 590.0622599999998
- Similarity Product: 585.1642470854077

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

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