PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15766859
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["250", "338100"]

Abstract:
A fluid sensing system ( 30 ) including a fluid channel ( 32 ) with an inlet ( 34 ) and an outlet ( 36 ). A thermal device ( 38 ) is operably coupled thereto at a first position whereby thermal energy is transferable with fluid in the channel. A section of the fluid channel downstream of the first position has a predefined cross section and flow path. A thermal imaging device ( 46 ) is positioned to capture a thermal image of at least a portion of the downstream section. A processor ( 48 ) coupled with the thermal imaging device is configured to determine at least one output value representative of a property of the fluid medication or fluid flow using the thermal image. The output value may be the flow volume. In some embodiments, the fluid channel also defines a section upstream of the first position with the thermal imaging device capturing an image that includes at least portions of both the upstream and downstream sections.

Claim (Index 1):
A fluid sensing system for a medication delivery device, the medication delivery device including a reservoir adapted to contain a supply of a fluid medication, and a discharge structure through which the fluid medication is discharged from the medication delivery device, the discharge structure being adapted to introduce the fluid medication into a patient; the fluid sensing system being disposed on the medication delivery device and comprising:\n a fluid channel communicating the fluid medication from an inlet to an outlet, the inlet being in fluid communication with the reservoir with the reservoir being disposed upstream of the inlet, and the outlet being in fluid communication with the discharge structure with the discharge structure being disposed downstream of the outlet; a thermal device operably coupled with the fluid channel at a first position between the inlet and the outlet whereby thermal energy is transferrable between the thermal device and the fluid medication flowing in the fluid channel at the first position and wherein a downstream section of the fluid channel downstream of the first position has a predefined cross section and a predefined flow path; a thermal imaging device positioned to capture a thermal image of at least a portion of the downstream section of the fluid channel; and a processor coupled with the thermal imaging device and configured to determine, based on at least one thermal image, at least one output value that is representative of a property of the fluid medication and/or the fluid flow in the fluid channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25316
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14508934', '14209940', '14775185', '10777078', '15350759']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6426795293258482
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4650221778082888
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6249137941740922
- Mean Citation Score: 145.060698
- Max Citation Score: 153.16913
- Similarity Product: 120.10151191262602

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

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