PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918311
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["005", "421000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods related to an underbody support for supporting a body of a being, such as during surgery to prevent contact pressure injuries. In certain embodiments, the underbody support may include one or more inflatable chambers enclosing a volume. At least one of the inflatable chambers may include one or more compression sensitive switches for monitoring the volume of the inflatable chamber, and the one or more compression sensitive switches may be located within the inflatable chamber. In some embodiments the one or more compression sensitive switches are sized to close when the said inflatable chamber is deflated to a desired residual volume.

Claim (Index 11):
The underbody support of  claim 1 , wherein a control algorithm is configured to release air from the one or more inflatable chambers until a portion of the patient laying on the underbody support compresses and closes at least one of the one or more compression sensitive switches, wherein compression and closure of one or more of the compression sensitive switches initiates the control algorithm that activates a pump and a valve to re-inflate the inflatable chambers until the patient is lifted off of the one or more compressed, compression sensitive switches and the one or more compression sensitive switches reopens; and\n further wherein the reopening of the said one or more compressed, compression sensitive switches initiates the control algorithm that turns the pump and the valve off so that the volume of the inflatable chamber is maintained in a controlled but partially deflated condition.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94737
- Patent Class: 5.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14683825', '14940828', '14842533', '11204632', '12137769']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8252186949447613
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5806443918726938
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8007612646375545
- Mean Citation Score: 296.805994
- Max Citation Score: 489.00858
- Similarity Product: 464.5489929551947

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