PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16253137
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["340", "010100"]

Abstract:
A system and method for tracking medical articles located in a container includes a hybrid isolated magnetic dipole (“IMD”) probe that provides an activating EM energy RF field having a magnetic near field at least as great as the electric near field, both of which cover the entire interior of the container. The probe comprises a main element having capacitive coupling across at least one slot and spacing above a ground plane to thereby form an isolated electric field and an equally strong or stronger magnetic field that fills the interior of the container to activate RFID tags therein. A dual system is provided for larger containers. A dynamic impedance tuning system controls the probe impedance for increased efficiency in transferring power to the interior of the container. Beam steering is provided with the IMD probe.

Claim (Index 1):
A tracking system for medical articles stored in an interior volume of a container, each of the medical articles having wireless identification device that is configured to respond with respective identification data upon receiving activation energy, the system comprising:\n electromagnetic (\u201cEM\u201d) located about the interior volume of the container to shield the interior volume of the container from the passage of EM energy both into and out of the interior volume, whereby the interior volume is isolated to keep activating radio frequency (\u201cRF\u201d) energy within the container so that wireless identification devices located outside the container are not activated and read; an EM energy conducting injection probe located within the EM shielding, the injection probe located and configured to inject activation RF energy into the interior volume having an energy pattern directed to fill the interior volume of the container with an EM field, wherein the injection probe comprises a main conductive element having capacitive coupling thereby forming an isolated electric field that fills the interior volume of the container, and wherein the main conductive element is located in relation to a ground plane to thereby form a robust magnetic field that is orthogonal to the electric field and that also fills the interior volume of the container; a signal source producing activation RF energy and coupled to the injection probe; and a processor connected with the signal source, the processor being programmed to control the signal source to deliver the activation RF energy to the injection probe for injecting into the interior volume of the container to activate identification devices in the interior volume, the processor further being programmed to stop the signal source from delivering RF energy to the injection probe to allow identification signals from activated identification devices in the interior volume to be received.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65909
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15785389', '14752837', '16154694', '15838310', '14214284']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7368011691692075
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6258547710099488
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7257065293532816
- Mean Citation Score: 418.942318
- Max Citation Score: 555.7376
- Similarity Product: 529.6620928497315

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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