PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16194312
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["434", "247000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to system and methods for assessing and improving an infant's oral feeding skills. The system comprises a “smart” baby feeding device comprising an instrumented baby bottle with a battery-powered monitoring module wirelessly connected to a remote device (e.g., smart phone, tablet, laptop, PC, data processing device). The purpose of the remote device is to monitor (in real time) and measure the frequency and quality of feedings of new-born babies to help optimize feeding development by providing real-time feeding performance information back to the caregiver. The information collected is of assistance in minimizing feeding difficulties and correcting feeding deficiencies.

Claim (Index 20):
A feeding system for feeding a person with a nutrient liquid, and for assessing the person's oral feeding skills, comprising:\n a feeding bottle; sensor means, operatively associated with the feeding bottle, for measuring one or more parameters of liquid ingested by the person during a feeding session; and a computer processing unit (CPU) programmed to monitor and analyze sensor data generated by the sensor means; wherein the CPU is programmed to calculate an Oral Feeding Skill (OFS) level by comparing the one or more parameters of liquid ingested by the person during the feeding session to one or more preselected cutoff values; wherein an OFS scale defines a range of feeding performance characteristics; wherein the Oral Feeding Skills (OFS) level is calculated to be 1, 2, 3, or 4, at any point in time during the feeding session, according to the following OFS scale:\n OFS level=1 indicating Low oral feeding skills and Low endurance; \n OFS level=2 indicating Low oral feeding skills and High endurance; \n OFS level=3 indicating High oral feeding skills and Low endurance; and \n OFS level=4 indicating High oral feeding skills and High endurance; \n and wherein the smart feeding system further comprises: alphanumeric display means for notifying a caregiver to \u201cSTOP FEEDING\u201d if OFS=1 at any point during the feeding session; alphanumeric display means for notifying the caregiver of \u201cINTERVENTION NEEDED\u201d if OFS=2 or 3 at any point during the feeding session; and alphanumeric display means for notifying the caregiver to \u201cCONTINUE FEEDING\u201d if OFS=4 at any point during the feeding session; and wherein the sensor means is disposed within a stand-alone, self-contained, battery-powered, wireless, removable instrumentation module that is disposed outside of the feeding bottle and that is attached to a sidewall of the bottle; wherein the instrumentation module comprises an inlet aperture for admitting air, and an outlet aperture that is in fluid communication with an air vent hole disposed on the bottle's sidewall; and wherein the instrumentation module further comprises one or more filters capable of filtering out viruses or microorganisms from a stream of air flowing into the instrumentation module during the feeding session.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57333
- Patent Class: 434.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15412027', '14416039', '15408273', '14549519', '14709237']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3032659438640795
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6641129494939064
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3393506444270622
- Mean Citation Score: 327.59374
- Max Citation Score: 768.8047
- Similarity Product: 634.498534734416

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