PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15892642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["382", "135000"]

Abstract:
A system is described that uses “freckles” contained within printed content on Federal Reserve Notes (FRN), and the image-capture of such freckles, along with the printed Federal-Reserve-Note Serial Number (FSN) on each FRN, to detect and deter counterfeiting within physical currency systems of the U.S. and countries worldwide. Additionally, databases on Central Monitoring Agency servers (CMA servers) maintain a status on such captured data for FRNs in use, or potential use, by the U.S. Treasury or other currency issuing and oversight agency that maintains CMA servers. Devices that count and scan FRNs, at diverse point-of-sale and other currency-exchange and transaction locations (Transaction Locations), as well as those part of back-office operations at Transaction Locations, capture FRNs and freckle-related content from FRNs, for transmission to CMA servers via the Internet (Internet of Things Architecture or IOTA™). The system enables Big Data analytical methods to detect and dramatically reduce or eliminate the use of counterfeited FRNs.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for detecting counterfeit bills in circulation, the system comprising:\n a). An imaging array that that captures denomination, serial number, and other imaging information from the face of bills when they are first printed by a currency issuing and oversight agency; b). That digitizes denomination and serial number captured from the imaging array, for storing, cross-referencing and indexing on a central server of a currency issuing and oversight agency, and digital profiles of content specific areas of a bill, based on freckles in the form of ink speckling and splattering on the face of a bill, from the printing process that originally produces a bill; c). That uses a device at point-of-sale and transaction location to scan the same content information specified in 1.b) for bill of interest, and for transmittal by Internet and other means to a central server of a currency issuing and oversight agency to detect differences between what is originally captured about the bill-of interest when it is first printed by the currency issuing and oversight agency. d). That retains IDs a currency oversight and issuing agency assigns to point-of-sale and transaction locations, including address, phone number, responsible parties, and geodetic information for a point-of-sale and transaction location with a device declared in 1.c), which does not exclude multiple such devices at a point of sale and transaction location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71429
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10430025', '12544052', '10337183', '13785636', '14151646']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4234941083536667
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4604790311042298
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.427192600628723
- Mean Citation Score: 139.71880199999998
- Max Citation Score: 151.71469
- Similarity Product: 113.29795409015416

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