PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16393714
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "231000"]

Abstract:
Arrangements are provided for “smart” functionality with “dumb” containers, such as for tracking medication use to determine adherence. An acoustic emitter such as a whistle is engaged with a container such as an eye drop bottle. An event such as dispensing medication or opening the container causes a characteristic acoustic emission, such as an ultrasonic pitch of specific frequency. The emitter may be purposefully configured to produce the emission, may operate so that the emission is a natural consequence of dispensing medication (or other event), and may operate transparently to the user. The emitter may be part of a larger remote, such as a squeezable air-filled shell with an aperture to accept the container. A cell phone or other station receives the acoustic emission, and if a processor thereof determines that the emission is characteristic of the emitter the event is recorded, transmitted, displayed, or otherwise registered.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n a remote adapted to engage a medication container, said remote comprising a purposed acoustic emitter adapted to emit a characteristic acoustic emission in user-transparent consequential response to a remote event; a station, comprising:\n a processor; and \n a receiver in communication with said processor; \n wherein said processor is adapted to determine whether said acoustic emission is characteristic of said acoustic emitter, and to register said remote event if said acoustic emission is determined to be characteristic of said acoustic emitter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97647
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15885681', '16192450', '16025919', '16238905', '11980020']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4311748193682209
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5600455014096429
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4440618875723631
- Mean Citation Score: 302.741846
- Max Citation Score: 500.19745
- Similarity Product: 340.3044484109729

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

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