PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988189
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["422", "028000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for sanitizing a stethoscope head. The apparatus includes a housing, a reservoir disposed within the housing for containing the sanitizing fluid, one or more applicator pads mounted on the housing, and a dispensing valve for dispensing the sanitizing fluid from the reservoir onto the applicator pad.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for sanitizing a stethoscope head having a diaphragm and a bell, the method comprising:\n providing an apparatus configured to apply a sanitizing fluid to the stethoscope head, the apparatus comprising:\n a housing shaped to retain a sanitizing fluid; and \n an applicator pad connected to the housing and in selective fluid communication with the sanitizing fluid, the applicator pad comprising a raised portion configured to at least partially extend into an interior region of the bell of the stethoscope head when the bell is placed against the raised portion; \n dispensing the sanitizing fluid from the housing and to the applicator pad, the applicator pad formed from a porous, absorbent material that absorbs the sanitizing fluid when the sanitizing fluid dispenses out of the housing and onto the applicator pad; and applying the sanitizing fluid to the bell of the stethoscope head by placing the interior region of the bell against the raised portion of the applicator pad.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70968
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14357523', '14828651', '11544692', '14868749', '12584276']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8026104179258257
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4756298725489155
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7699123633881346
- Mean Citation Score: 193.697726
- Max Citation Score: 267.13303
- Similarity Product: 246.1714854942537

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

Dataset: test