PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16100430
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["340", "568100"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for monitoring drug-regimen compliance is disclosed. Systems in accordance with the present invention enable automatic monitoring of the state of medicine content of a blister card. Each tablet location on the blister card is operatively coupled with a different sensor that detects whether the tablet location is occupied and/or a dispensing event at a tablet location. In some embodiments, capacitive sensing is employed, where the capacitance of each sensor is based on the physical state of a dispensing region of the lidding film of the blister pack, which is located at the tablet location being monitored. Alternative sensing approaches are based on optical, acoustic, and tactile sensors that interrogate either the dispensing region at each tablet location or the tablets themselves to determine whether tablets have been dispensed. The sensors interface with a mobile app that provides the user instructions to help improve drug-regimen compliance.

Claim (Index 31):
A system for monitoring the state of at least one blister card that includes a forming film, a lidding film, and a first tablet contained in a first reservoir defined by the forming film and the lidding film, wherein the system comprises:\n (1) a housing that is operative for locating the blister card in a first position; (2) a first detection module comprising a first sensor that includes:\n (i) an acoustic transmitter that transmits a first acoustic signal; and \n (ii) an acoustic receiver operative for providing a first electrical signal based on the magnitude of a second acoustic signal that has a first magnitude when first reservoir contains the first tablet and a second magnitude when the first reservoir does not contain the first tablet; \n wherein the acoustic transmitter and acoustic receiver are arranged such that the acoustic transmitter transmits the first acoustic signal toward the first reservoir and the acoustic receiver receives the second acoustic signal from the first reservoir; and \n (3) an electronics module that is operative for receiving the first electrical signal from the first sensor and providing a first output signal based on the first electrical signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 131.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79775
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15223779', '14879874', '15170121', '15364462', '09737327']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6663908416248093
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5983985672239321
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6595916141847217
- Mean Citation Score: 262.885084
- Max Citation Score: 543.639
- Similarity Product: 428.7579610372782

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

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