PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965706
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "449000"]

Abstract:
The hand-held device detects the distance between a muscle and an outer skin layer in a body by impacting the outer surface of the skin and detecting the distance to the muscle from that point of engagement. The device includes a first end including a force sensor configured to detect the force of an impact of the first end to an associated body part. The device further includes a distance sensor provided at the first end configured to detect the distance between a skin outer layer and a muscle; and a main body configured to receive a hand. The detection device includes a controller and processor to detect the impact force and distance between the skin outer layer and muscle at engagement. The device may be used to determine muscle depth and/or location in connection with the prescription and/or administration of anaphylaxis medications by auto injector.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for measuring muscle depth in a body, the method comprising:\n providing a force measuring device, the force measuring device comprising:\n a force sensor for detecting force of engagement; \n a load cell operatively connected to the force sensor such that forces on the sensor are transmitted to the load cell; \n a rigid portion joined to the force sensor by a flexible portion such that the force sensor is flexibly joined to the relatively rigid portion and is laterally movable with respect to a longitudinal center line of the relatively rigid portion; and \n a calculation device that quantifies displacement of internal tissues in the body; \n applying a force with the force sensor against an external body tissue; detecting a distance between an outer skin layer and muscle layer; measuring the force applied to the external body tissue; calculating a displacement of the external body tissue; calculating depth to muscle (d m ,); and, transmitting the depth to muscle to a user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4127
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14564793', '16071203', '14067829', '14595972', '14318368']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4749884387758662
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5014490571226737
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4776345006105469
- Mean Citation Score: 177.73368000000005
- Max Citation Score: 295.95148
- Similarity Product: 217.25967023074628

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

Dataset: test